Movies
Justin Chon’s drama ‘Ms. Purple’ features Korean American siblings reuniting in Los Angeles to care for their dying father and face their family’s past.
Sept. 4, 2019
Director-writer-star Justin Chon delivers a passionate plea for those being forced to leave the only country they’ve known as home.
Sept. 17, 2021
Justin Chon knows that the title of his new film, “Gook,” doesn’t roll off the tongue easily.
Aug. 17, 2017
Awards
The director-star’s ‘Blue Bayou’ brings to light deportation policies for people adopted from other countries as children.
Jan. 5, 2022
Justin Chon wrote, directed and starred in this uneven but devastating film about a Louisana man facing deportation from the only country he’s ever known.
Sept. 16, 2021
As its wounded, defiant provocation of a title suggests, “Gook” looks head-on at racial animosity, American-style.
Kasie, the quietly spiraling heroine of the drama “Ms.
Jan. 25, 2019
Showrunner Soo Hugh and directors Justin Chon and Kogonada find the personal amid the story’s sweeping scope
May 25, 2022
California
Carol Park and Justin Chon, both children of Korean American business owners during the 1992 L.A. riots, share their perspectives on what the riots meant to them as kids — and now as adults.
April 26, 2017
Justin Chon was 10. It was April 29, 1992.
April 27, 2017