“I feel like I’m a background character in someone else’s story.”
So goes the internal monologue of Interior Chinatown protagonist Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), who works as a waiter in Chinatown. While Willis’ musings about his role in life could just be the result of aimless angst, they are actually 100-percent true.
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That’s because this Chinatown is not what it seems. It’s part of the fictional town of Port Harbour, which is the setting of the cop show Black & White. Willis and everyone around him in Chinatown are simply bit players in a larger story. They just don’t know it.
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