Take Out (2004)

[MifuneFan]

Criterion will be releasing Take Out, an early film from Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket), and Shih-Ching Tsou on September 13th.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Take-Out-Blu-ray/305397/



https://www.criterion.com/films/30084-take-out

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring Baker, Tsou, and actor Charles Jang
New interviews with Baker, Tsou, Jang, and actors Wang-Thye Lee and Jeng-Hua Yu
Program about the making of the film
Deleted scenes
Screen test
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and author J. J. Murphy

New cover by Slang Inc.

The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in the raw, vérité Take Out, by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post-9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding (Charles Jang) has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York running.