>while i'm at it, something totally different: can anyone think of >melodramas (in the vein of say, the joy luck club) with primary >asian characters in it from the 1980s?

Do you mean American or European films?  If you're looking for asian-character melodramas in general there's an endless stream from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, etc.

LT

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