DVDs were either never released, out of print or hard to find (and not found online for streaming)

Media that avoids tropes, stereotypes, problematic casting which helps reduce anti-Asian hate, problems

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Tristan Allerick Chen, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, and Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red (2022)

In celebration to the August 2018 release of "Crazy Rich Asians", here is a list of feature films released in the past couple of decades that are Asian American. By "Asian American", I mean: features a mostly or significantly Asian American cast (not Asian nationals) and is set mostly in America (i.e., the story doesn't transpire in Asia  … but I snuck in a Canada-set movie). I include South Asian Indians. Only feature-length movies released in cinemas (no TV series, no shorts, no documentaries, no streaming-only movies … though I made an exception for my wife’s wonderful short film!). 

Asian-American feature films released in the US since the 1980s

Andrew Keegan, Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Gabrielle Union, Susan May Pratt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Krumholtz, and Larisa Oleynik in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Ruth Reynolds and Madeline Merritt in The Guest House (2012)

Movies of Asian male and White (and few other non-Asian) female romances. Please leave a comment if you know any movie that I haven't included in this list.

Interracial Romance: Asian Male White Female

Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

Mostly listing those films that are good, but somewhere below the mainstream...

Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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