Pushing Hands

First feature film by director Ang Lee (1992)
The title of the film refers to the pushing hands training that is part of the grandfather’s t’ai chi routine. It’s a two-person training which teaches the student to yield in the face of brute force. Taiji Quan teachers were persecuted in China during the Cultural Revolution, and the grandfather’s family was broken up as a result. He sent his son to the West several years earlier and when he could he came to live with his family with the expectation of picking up where they left off, but he was unprepared for the very different atmosphere of the West.
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