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Victor Wong: New York
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When Wah Gay's son, Ben Loy (Russell Wong), brings home his beautiful Chinese bride, Mei Oi (Cora Miao), the couple immediately become the focus of all the community's hopes for renewal. Wah Gay glories in the boost in "face" he receives from his son's prominence and, puffing out his chest, he walks with a new swagger in his step.
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That was not the only obstacle Victor had to overcome. The musical arrangements are ... different. The Chinese albums offer new compositions and songs, while the English songs have familiar and classic oldies.
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By S.S. YOGA There's no looking back for Victor Wong as he moves into new territory. THEY were the trail-blazers who went to Taiwan, kicked opened the door and made the Taiwanese music industry sit up and take
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Fascinated with street culture, Wong became the most important individual patron of American graffiti art. In 1986, he co-founded with Peter Broda the Graffiti Museum, now incorporated into the Museum of the City of New York.
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Shortly after the film was finished, Wong experienced one of the most tragic events in his life. His son, Lyon, was killed in Sacramento in a fight with another young man. In the week after his son’s death, the actor learned that he was sought back in Hollywood by Carpenter, who had decided to cast his character Egg Shen in a new scene that would open the movie.
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Although largely self-taught as a painter, Wong succeeded in gaining significant recognition in the highly competitive New York art world of the 1980s. Defying easy classification, his intellectually and psychologically complex paintings have been described both as social realist and as visionary.
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