Trailer for Ping Pong Playa

Ping Pong Playa is another sport comedy film featuring Asian Americans which has just been released. No matter how serious a sport it can be, I guess it cries out to be made into a comedy – like the former Balls of Fury.

Check out the trailer for Ping Pong Playa below.

About the film:

Christopher “C-DUB” Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player.

Blaming genetics for his failure to make the NBA, C-dub lives at home, works a dead-end job, and squirms in the shadow of his older brother, Michael, a doctor and ping pong champion.

With a family-run store devoted to all things ping pong and a mom who teaches it at the local Chinese Community Center, the Wang’s entire world revolves around the sport.

When his mom and Michael are hurt in a car accident, leaving his father to watch over the store, C-dub is forced to take over his mom’s ping pong class of misfits.

C- dub starts to appreciate the benefits of ping pong when he starts using the class to make some extra money on the side and befriending one of the kids who happens to have a beautiful older sister.

But when the Wang family livelihood is threatened by a rival ping pong player’s attempt to lure the kids away, C-dub begins to take things more seriously. With the National Golden Cock coming up and an injured Michael unable to defend his title, C-dub must become the player he pretends to be and defend his family’s ping pong dynasty.

Seen on the British Chinese blog

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