Immigration to the United States is back in the conversation with Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari being nominated for the Oscars. The film follows a South Korean family’s efforts to eke out a living in Arkansas. The culture clash and dislocation that accompany Korean immigrants to the land of easy promise and hard-won victories have previously been examined in films such as Deep Blue Night (1985) and America, America (1988). In Minari, the family is the unit through which tensions play out. The similarly life-altering experience of an Indian immigrant family is the focus of Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1991). The film