Smoking Tigers

2023

Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 11 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 280 280

teenage girl southern california woman director korean american

Plot summary

Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.

Director

So Young Shelly Yo Photo
So Young Shelly Yo

Top cast

Ji-young Yoo Photo
Ji-young Yoo as Hayoung
Sook Hyung Yang Photo
Sook Hyung Yang as Suki
Chloe Lee Photo
Chloe Lee as Christine
Erin Yoo Photo
Erin Yoo as Rose
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823.02 MB
1194*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 4
1.65 GB
1792*1080
English 5.1
NR
us  es  pt  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 7
4 GB
3600*2160
English 5.1
NR
us  es  pt  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Navid_Khalid

An Important film of our time

I watched Smoking Tigers expecting nothing. But liked it because it tells a lot about the human life of modern times.Smoking Tigers is absolutely a drama film, a film that talks about a family, talks about the relations among family members. The style of the film is a bit gloomy. However, audiences will not feel sad by watching Smoking Tigers. They will feel connected, mostly those who are living abroad or in a foreign land for better future or just for their survival. The diasporic people of different communities face difficulties in many ways. The adverse effects easily keep impacts on the youngstars. I really appreciate the makers for making this film. The 21st century needs more films like Smoking Tigers.
Reviewed by A_Different_Drummer 7 / 10

Deserves a wider audience ...

... But may not find one. Turns out that not all Asians are crazy, or rich, or martial arts masters, or communicating with the Gods on Five Elements Mountain. This is the tale of a Korean teenager, superbly portrayed byJi-young Yoo, who (of course) has a lot of confusion in her young life. Her father is estranged from her mother, and is headed back to Korea. Her mother spends every spare dime trying to help her daughter with academic achievement. And, as with any teen anywhere, all the poor girl wants to do is impress her friends (even if it means pretending to be what she is not) and find out who she really is. Well done. But nothing new. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

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