Editing Chan Is Missing (section)

==Critical reception==
''Chan is Missing'' is highly acclaimed. On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 96% based on 49 reviews with the consensus: "An entertaining mystery that's also rich in setting and character detail, ''Chan is Missing'' suggests thrilling potential from director/co-writer Wayne Wang."<ref>{{cite web |title=Chan Is Missing (1982) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chan_is_missing |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=2021-05-19 }}</ref>

Roger Ebert of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote that the film is "whimsical treasure of a film that gives us a real feeling for the people of San Francisco's Chinatown" and it "has already become something of a legend because of the way it was filmed" that it demonstrates a "warm, low-key, affectionate and funny look at some real Chinese-Americans" and went to say "almost without realizing it, we are taken beyond the plot into the everyday lives of these people."<ref>{{cite web |date=1982 |author=Roger Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Chan is Missing|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/chan-is-missing-1982|publisher=Roger Ebert.com|access-date=25 March 2014}}</ref>

Vincent Canby of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said in his review that "Chan Is Missing is not only an appreciation of a way of life that few of us know anything about; it's a revelation of a marvelous, completely secure new talent."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/24/movies/chan-is-missing.html|title="Chan is Missing" in Chinatown|first=Vincent|last=Canby|work=[[The New York Times]]|date= April 24, 1982|access-date= 15 May 2018}}</ref>

A review by Dennis Schwartz stated that, "It's breezy and warmly done, a low-key comedy that takes you into an ethnic group that has rarely been captured on film in such a revealing way. A true Indy film, and a delight."<ref>{{cite web |title=CHAN IS MISSING – Dennis Schwartz Reviews |date=August 5, 2019 |url=https://dennisschwartzreviews.com/chanismissing/ }}</ref>

The film won 'Best Experimental/Independent Film' at the [[1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]].<ref name="The New York Times" />