The Joy Luck Club

In a 2018 NPR interview, executive producer Janet Yang recalled that director Wayne Wang (who she said usually had "the most lovely personality") lost his temper in a marketing meeting because the studio had presented him with the choices for posters to advertise the movie, and all of the options avoided showing the face of an Asian person. Either the designs were very abstract (for example, a decorative woodcut) or they were photos of the actresses' backs.

In the second chess game that Waverley plays as a child with the boy the chess board and the positions of the pieces are clearly shown on the screen. The boy moves his queen. Waverley makes a move and the boy responds with a move in which he captures a pawn and he says "check". The only possible move that the boy could have made at this point which would have resulted in an utterance of any kind would have been "checkmate" - Black queen supported by black bishop takes white pawn, Mate. After this Waverley makes another move which would have been impossible under the rules of the game because the game would have been over on black's last move.