Hi, Jesse. I've seen this "Joy Luck Club" movie so many times. I have some of Amy Tan's books, including this "The Joy Luck Club". I own the soundtrack & movie as well. But yeah, I teared up again watching this clip. Ming Na Wen's character, June, is my favorite character from this story. Anyways, yeah, I agree with you that a person would have a heart of stone to not shed a tear while watching this. There were many parts of this film where I teared up because I'm Asian American & can relate to some of the situations that were shown in this film. Have a nice holidays & a good 2015!
They couldn't translate the last bit where they called each other meimei "little sister" and jiejie "big sister" instead of just lazily put [Chinese]....it would've made the scene even more touching for western audiences to see them addressing each other as sisters.....
As an ethnic Chinese, I never understood the significance of this scene till years later, it's about family and the connections therein. It didn't matter that their mother had passed, but that her spirit lives in their little sister June and she is here to share their mother's hope and dreams for her daughters.
See the rest. This is definitely the most emotional part of the whole movie but there are some other great stories that are strangely relatable and tear-inducing. It is really an underappreciated gem, imo.
Jesus! I was having such a great day. I come across this 2 minute video and now I’m a sobbing mess! I should have just pulled out a tooth and I’d be in less pain than now. What a sad, emotional scene. The baby in the bath scene (not spoiling- but you know which one) traumatized me for life when I watched it when I was 13. But this scene is just as emotional. This movie is so unforgettable and extremely underrated!!!
DEFINITELY one of the most heart wrenching scenes, in one of the BEST FILMS of 1993. The one where their mother had to abandon her twin baby girls, was like a knife, through the heart. Fortunately, this scene end on an uplifting note. (When I saw this film in the theater, there were EVEN ADULT MEN WEEPING.) Crazy Rich Asian doesn't touch this MILESTONE MOVIE, by a thousand kilometers.
as a chinese american born to now upper class family, i cant fathom the difficulties and sacrifices my family had to go through in china, through the cultural revolution, etc....
I can never watch this scene without where my eyes don't tear and my throat gets choked up. Whenever I read or see the words 妹妹 and 姐姐 (mèimei and jiějiě, younger sister, older sisters) my mind flashes back to this scene.
Everytime when I saw this movie, I have seen soooooo many sad and awful scenes. This hard Story with this strong women. And this ending scene is sooo unbelievable beautiful and sad in one time, I am alway crying after so many years. One of my favorite movies. And I really know a lot of movies.
I had seen the film first and then came across a copy of the unabridged version in middle school and it was fantastic..I'll have to revisit it again at some point.
This movie inspired me to learn some Mandarin in college. When I learned what “meimei” and “jiejie” mean, and watched it again for the way they expressed it through the tones with such deep longing and sad-sweet feeling, it clicked, like listening to music. The subtitles don’t do it justice. 😭
I agreed to watch this movie with my older sister when I was in my late teens...i remember the entire theatre was sobbing through many scenes of this movie, including men. All races...
That's because the story speaks to something that's universal in us as a species. The culture makes it intriguing but the core resonates as something to which we can all relate.
It was my first and favorite book to read.. One of Amy Tan's best selling book, The Joy Luck Club......I have also read the Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter...They never failed me to cry... I have invested all my emotions there..
What an amazing story! I just wrapped up this movie for the first time ever watching it. Heard so many good things about the book and the movie. Just an incredible set of tales!
The weird part of this scene is that June, who is American-born and raised, was never fluent in Mandarin. Then, all of a sudden, upon arriving in China to be reunited with her long-lost sisters, suddenly can speak Mandarin 😂😂
Certain movies need to be emphasized and reintroduce per each generation. Not only for entertainment or appreciation, but so that one may have at least some minimal cultural enrichment while being amongst society.
I was close to crying until I saw the Chinese translation for the sorry's even though they were clear as day english. Not to mention that the whole time sentences were translated and then a phrase is left simply to "Chinese". I get that it might not translate over properly but at least attempt.
oh actually they were just calling each other "sisters": "Jie jie" is how you call your elder sister, and "Mei mei" is how you call your younger sister in Mandarin. So they were tearing up and calling each other "Jie jie" and "Mei mei" for the fist time.
Also, the subtitles in this video literally cover every spoken sound. Where as in the movie, Jie jie and Mei mei are left untranslated. Much more powerful without the hand holding.
It's a beautiful moment but I prefer the book version. I haven't read in a long time but I remember there is no dialogue there. I think the dialogue here is too mawkish or sentimentalist. Less is more, and the book is paradoxically conveying more emotion but with more subtlety.
I was born in the late 90s so I didn’t rlly watch it then til later til like 2007 when it came on after charmed n cuz I liked Asian culture I watched it and this movie was the bomb and the ending had me sobbing. It was soo sad. It’s always neat to see different cultures and their ppl n their different walks of life in a country that makes life a hard walk. I like old movies or movies based in old times of how it was back in the day. Ex the country Germany during WWII from the citizens POV vs Hitlers POV and America blacks vs American whites in the 60s and segregation. I actually saw a movie bout a mixed race German child during WWII. And how other mixed races Germans were being treated. I watch scientist on ancient Egyptians and I also read the Bible bout Hebrews and Egyptians mostly at that time. I saw the Royal tailor was an great Korean movie bout the royalty and a poor tailor who brung a new era of clothing n the royal tailor was jealous of poor tailor because the queen preferred the poor one but the king didn’t. The poor tailor was young like 18 looking but the royal tailor got him killed. Cuz of his jealousy. The story of Ip man during WWII wen the Chinese was taken over by the Japanese n ip man fought the Japanese n won. Stories like these I love reading n watching about to see how things were different back then n that we shouldn’t repeat history. But outta hardships comes the greatest stories.
@msairs I don't think so. For me, this was the MOST TRAGIC SCENE, in the whole movie. Su Yuan WAS A GOOD MOTHER TO HER TWINS, even though she "abandoned" them. She is Chinese. She felts she was CLOSE TO DYING. For the Chinese, babies NEXT TO A DEAD PERSON, IS EXTREMELY BAD LUCK, + most likely, will not be rescued. That IS WHY Su Yuan left all her worldly possessions, with the Twins, INCREASING THEIR CHANCE OF BEING RESCUED. (also more $, if the Twins were taken to their Father) She REALLY SACRIFICED for her Twins; besides leaving them WITH ALL HER POSSESSIONS, + a note RE taking them to their Father, with the promise of more $, SHE ALSO WENT "TO DIE" AWAY from the Twins. Su Yuan DID NOT CARE ABOUT HERSELF; she did EVERYTHING TO INSURE THE TWINS WILL BE RESCUED. (She even cried for help from the passing jerk, whom, also played the part of An Mei's Mom's violator) This was during the Sino-Japanese War; A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR CHINA.
The father explained the mom was very sick and thought she was dying. She had to leave the babies because if she died next to them no one would take the babies because it was bad luck. So she had to leave them by the road and die somewhere away from them. I think he said she collapsed somewhere and when she came to she was in a hospital or something. I saw the film years ago and always remembered this ending.
Suyuan's wish is to reunite with her twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chuwn Hua, from her first marriage that she was forced to abandon during the Japanese attack of Chongking. It was Jing-Mei that fulfilled her cherished wish to do so. In doing so, she finally made peace with her mother and accepted her Chinese heritage.
God bless you all , Jesus loves you all only he can save u repent and turn from your sins and accept Jesus as Lord and saviour and you will be saved. He is the only way to eternal life in heaven once you pass away its too late . ❤✝️🙌 .
Oh, give the girl some credit. This was one of her starting roles. She wasn't that bad besides you got to start somewhere. She was wooden in some parts just like how the lovely Tamlyn Tomita started in Karate Kid II (also stared in this film).
If you don't cry during this scene or at least get watery eyes, you have some sort of emotional impairment.
Hi, Jesse. I've seen this "Joy Luck Club" movie so many times. I have some of Amy Tan's books, including this "The Joy Luck Club". I own the soundtrack & movie as well. But yeah, I teared up again watching this clip. Ming Na Wen's character, June, is my favorite character from this story. Anyways, yeah, I agree with you that a person would have a heart of stone to not shed a tear while watching this. There were many parts of this film where I teared up because I'm Asian American & can relate to some of the situations that were shown in this film. Have a nice holidays & a good 2015!
VelvetGal5 I really really love this film also...has been my most favourite film since it came out in the 90's...
One if the very few scenes in any movie, were i cry... no matter how many times i see it
Well said.
Jesse Calcat Maybe if the acting was at least B-grade, I could. This was bad. Just bad.
They couldn't translate the last bit where they called each other meimei "little sister" and jiejie "big sister" instead of just lazily put [Chinese]....it would've made the scene even more touching for western audiences to see them addressing each other as sisters.....
As an ethnic Chinese, I never understood the significance of this scene till years later, it's about family and the connections therein. It didn't matter that their mother had passed, but that her spirit lives in their little sister June and she is here to share their mother's hope and dreams for her daughters.
i cried and this is the only part of the movie i saw omg
See the rest. This is definitely the most emotional part of the whole movie but there are some other great stories that are strangely relatable and tear-inducing. It is really an underappreciated gem, imo.
this movie is so good ...so worth the watch
Me too omg I just wanted to see end scene but omg
I cried through the whole thing. Kudos to the composer.
The great Rachel Portman. So many times I'm watching a movie and the score is gorgeous and sure enough, Portman did the music. She's fantastic!
@@rubytuesdayphoenixThank you!I will check her scores out❤
This part of the book had me sobbing, this scene is still just as powerful in the movie. It's so inspiring.
This scene broke my heart with sadness.
this entire movie is just - oh my god
Jesus! I was having such a great day. I come across this 2 minute video and now I’m a sobbing mess! I should have just pulled out a tooth and I’d be in less pain than now. What a sad, emotional scene. The baby in the bath scene (not spoiling- but you know which one) traumatized me for life when I watched it when I was 13. But this scene is just as emotional. This movie is so unforgettable and extremely underrated!!!
@COURTNEY
AGREE.
It SHOULD HAVE won lots of major awards.
SUCH A GOOD FILM....VERY TOUCHING EVEN WATCHING THIS BRNGS TEARS TO MY EYES
DEFINITELY one of the most heart wrenching scenes, in one of the BEST FILMS of 1993.
The one where their mother had to abandon her twin baby girls, was like a knife, through
the heart. Fortunately, this scene end on an uplifting note.
(When I saw this film in the theater, there were EVEN ADULT MEN WEEPING.)
Crazy Rich Asian doesn't touch this MILESTONE MOVIE, by a thousand kilometers.
My eyes got puffy from all tbe tears i shed on this movie.😭😭😭
as a chinese american born to now upper class family, i cant fathom the difficulties and sacrifices my family had to go through in china, through the cultural revolution, etc....
I'm sorry I think I have something in my eye ( runs out of room crying)
I cry everytime I see this scene.
I love this film 💕
I'm tearing up, as usual.
Every particle in our universe is in motion on it's way toward somewhere. Discover your path, define it, feel it within your soul.
I can never watch this scene without where my eyes don't tear and my throat gets choked up. Whenever I read or see the words 妹妹 and 姐姐 (mèimei and jiějiě, younger sister, older sisters) my mind flashes back to this scene.
Everytime when I saw this movie, I have seen soooooo many sad and awful scenes. This hard Story with this strong women. And this ending scene is sooo unbelievable beautiful and sad in one time, I am alway crying after so many years. One of my favorite movies. And I really know a lot of movies.
@Andrew Widdel
Yes. It is in my TOP FIVE.
I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweaty.
I love this movie! I cry everytime. Ive suggested to several friends and coworkers over the years and they all loved it as well
This scene always makes me cry in the best way possible
I LOVED this movie to the max and all now I still do . All of the actressess were super amazing. Ming-na Wen I wanna marry you .
Very powerful movie still one of my favourites to this day. Some great quotes throughout the movie. Love it.
I just finished reading the book
They lost their mother, but gained each other. ❤
I saw this movie in home, First! i love this film a lot. wonderful mom ❤
Awe. This was such a great film.
The score is truly sublime. Omg
The executives at Kleenex must love this film.
I had seen the film first and then came across a copy of the unabridged version in middle school and it was fantastic..I'll have to revisit it again at some point.
This movie inspired me to learn some Mandarin in college. When I learned what “meimei” and “jiejie” mean, and watched it again for the way they expressed it through the tones with such deep longing and sad-sweet feeling, it clicked, like listening to music. The subtitles don’t do it justice. 😭
I agreed to watch this movie with my older sister when I was in my late teens...i remember the entire theatre was sobbing through many scenes of this movie, including men. All races...
That's because the story speaks to something that's universal in us as a species. The culture makes it intriguing but the core resonates as something to which we can all relate.
I remember my whole family watched this scene and they were just holding each other and crying. And I said ‘can we change the channel.’
It was my first and favorite book to read.. One of Amy Tan's best selling book, The Joy Luck Club......I have also read the Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter...They never failed me to cry... I have invested all my emotions there..
What an amazing story! I just wrapped up this movie for the first time ever watching it. Heard so many good things about the book and the movie. Just an incredible set of tales!
Translation:
“I’M GONNA LEAVE AND BECOME A BOUNTY HUNTER … FROM NOW ON… YOU WILL ONLY REFER TO ME AS, FENNEC SHAND…”
Wow I just realized it's the same actress 🤯
So touching, it made cry out of joy.
i remember watching this at the dorms with my dormmates in dark. after the movie and the lights were turn on, saw the ladies were in tears
Such a touchy scene
love this movie and love rachel portman who composed it.
As sorry as i was for them
I kept my wish as always
To find my own father....
#Marilee
I cried.
This scene gets me 😢 very emotional, but it's also a happy ending though at the same time
The weird part of this scene is that June, who is American-born and raised, was never fluent in Mandarin. Then, all of a sudden, upon arriving in China to be reunited with her long-lost sisters, suddenly can speak Mandarin 😂😂
Amazing!
The babies are back together!
Made me cry
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Beautiful inspiring story.
This made me read the book after watching the movie
Certain movies need to be emphasized and reintroduce per each generation. Not only for entertainment or appreciation, but so that one may have at least some minimal cultural enrichment while being amongst society.
One of the best Disney films
I cried 10 seconds in
@Raph Rayes
A REAL MAN, is not afraid to cry.
I was close to crying until I saw the Chinese translation for the sorry's even though they were clear as day english. Not to mention that the whole time sentences were translated and then a phrase is left simply to "Chinese". I get that it might not translate over properly but at least attempt.
oh actually they were just calling each other "sisters":
"Jie jie" is how you call your elder sister, and "Mei mei" is how you call your younger sister in Mandarin.
So they were tearing up and calling each other "Jie jie" and "Mei mei" for the fist time.
Also, the subtitles in this video literally cover every spoken sound. Where as in the movie, Jie jie and Mei mei are left untranslated. Much more powerful without the hand holding.
0:18 “Mama’s gone to heaven”
That’s a very inaccurate translation. She actually says, “媽媽已經過世了” which means “mom has already passed away”
It's a beautiful moment but I prefer the book version. I haven't read in a long time but I remember there is no dialogue there. I think the dialogue here is too mawkish or sentimentalist. Less is more, and the book is paradoxically conveying more emotion but with more subtlety.
😭
I was born in the late 90s so I didn’t rlly watch it then til later til like 2007 when it came on after charmed n cuz I liked Asian culture I watched it and this movie was the bomb and the ending had me sobbing. It was soo sad. It’s always neat to see different cultures and their ppl n their different walks of life in a country that makes life a hard walk. I like old movies or movies based in old times of how it was back in the day. Ex the country Germany during WWII from the citizens POV vs Hitlers POV and America blacks vs American whites in the 60s and segregation. I actually saw a movie bout a mixed race German child during WWII. And how other mixed races Germans were being treated. I watch scientist on ancient Egyptians and I also read the Bible bout Hebrews and Egyptians mostly at that time. I saw the Royal tailor was an great Korean movie bout the royalty and a poor tailor who brung a new era of clothing n the royal tailor was jealous of poor tailor because the queen preferred the poor one but the king didn’t. The poor tailor was young like 18 looking but the royal tailor got him killed. Cuz of his jealousy. The story of Ip man during WWII wen the Chinese was taken over by the Japanese n ip man fought the Japanese n won. Stories like these I love reading n watching about to see how things were different back then n that we shouldn’t repeat history. But outta hardships comes the greatest stories.
I don't get misty until that one actress goes all MEI MEI before the huge hug.
I feel like I should read the book
i've been *shunned* by my family ..
Isho may
Mi a mama tawa shai wa
😭😭😭
Damn Damn Damn Damn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i’m in knots
This was #Marilee's favorite scene
i cant help but wonder if it was the moms punishment to not see her twins before she died because she abandoned them..
@msairs
I don't think so. For me, this was the MOST TRAGIC SCENE, in the whole movie.
Su Yuan WAS A GOOD MOTHER TO HER TWINS, even though she "abandoned" them.
She is Chinese.
She felts she was CLOSE TO DYING. For the Chinese, babies NEXT TO A DEAD PERSON,
IS EXTREMELY BAD LUCK, + most likely, will not be rescued.
That IS WHY Su Yuan left all her worldly possessions, with the Twins, INCREASING THEIR
CHANCE OF BEING RESCUED. (also more $, if the Twins were taken to their Father)
She REALLY SACRIFICED for her Twins; besides leaving them WITH ALL HER POSSESSIONS,
+ a note RE taking them to their Father, with the promise of more $, SHE ALSO WENT "TO DIE"
AWAY from the Twins. Su Yuan DID NOT CARE ABOUT HERSELF; she did EVERYTHING TO
INSURE THE TWINS WILL BE RESCUED. (She even cried for help from the passing jerk,
whom, also played the part of An Mei's Mom's violator)
This was during the Sino-Japanese War; A VERY DIFFICULT TIME FOR CHINA.
The father explained the mom was very sick and thought she was dying. She had to leave the babies because if she died next to them no one would take the babies because it was bad luck. So she had to leave them by the road and die somewhere away from them.
I think he said she collapsed somewhere and when she came to she was in a hospital or something. I saw the film years ago and always remembered this ending.
😭😭😭
This is Katie Holmes favorite film too
She has excellent taste then!🙏💙💙💙
Oh why
Fennec shand
Wait what was her moms wish???
+Mark Ipod her hope to find her twins again and her hopes and dreams for June
Suyuan's wish is to reunite with her twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chuwn Hua, from her first marriage that she was forced to abandon during the Japanese attack of Chongking. It was Jing-Mei that fulfilled her cherished wish to do so. In doing so, she finally made peace with her mother and accepted her Chinese heritage.
No. Jing-Mei Woo translates to "Long Cherished Wish." Read the book people.
Great movie and scene, but I thought June didn't know how to speak Chinese.
Why weren't they wearing masks ?
i shouldn't have watched this
God bless you all , Jesus loves you all only he can save u repent and turn from your sins and accept Jesus as Lord and saviour and you will be saved. He is the only way to eternal life in heaven once you pass away its too late . ❤✝️🙌
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later this is who she becomes
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So over the top and sentimental. Blech.
Psychopath.
Ok filip
I'm sorry, but I found this (and the whole movie) so unintentionally hilarious. Ming Na's acting is so bad...
Oh, give the girl some credit. This was one of her starting roles. She wasn't that bad besides you got to start somewhere. She was wooden in some parts just like how the lovely Tamlyn Tomita started in Karate Kid II (also stared in this film).
@@mkaplan1383 You're right, she somehow got worse as time went on!
Why is it that every time I watch this scene, I bawl so hard? 🥹😭