Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy and Didi navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood.
When tragedy strikes on Lunar New Year, Amy is forced to consider her own destiny for the first time ever. Despite finding solace in the company of Didi’s former lover Cheung, Amy must leave the city and prioritize her own spirit in order to survive. In an unseen part of New York, Blue Sun Palace explores the lives of transient souls trying to find a sense of permanence.
Intimacy and warmth co-exist with economic anxieties and deep grief, articulated with uncommon intelligence and understanding of how adults endure any given day. In this debut feature, awarded the French Touch Prize by the jury at the 2024 Cannes Critics’ Week, Tsang shapes an immigrant’s tale, a relationship drama, a workplace comedy, and a great New York story in one.
STARRING: Lee Kang Sheng (STRAY DOGS, AUTUMN DAYS, THE DESERTED, BLACK OX), Ke-Xi Wu (NINA WU, THE ROAD TO MANDALAY, ICE POISON), Haipeng Xu
PRODUCED by Sally Sujin Oh, Eli Raskin, Tony Yang
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Norm Li
EDITED by Caitlin Carr