Name: Smoking Tigers
Genre: Drama
Released: 2024-08-16
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Cast: Ji-young Yoo, Jung Jun-ho, Abin Shim, Erin Choi, Erin Yoo

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Synopsis

Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.

Reviews from Movi members

barackobama6.8July 27, 2026

Accurate Korean American coming of age story. I got flashbacks to hagwon bruh omfg. The camera work is great — lots of good use of mirrors, walls, and angles. The pacing felt a little off. Some elements of Aftersun and Euphoria but didn’t deliver anything really new or insightful compared to what it presented itself as. Sad, I really liked the beginning but the middle and end lost me