Synopsis
“One Illegal Immigrant, One Smuggling Debt, One Day to Pay Up.”
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.
The 2003–2005 Other Asia Window
Take Out holds position #23 of 49 Other Asia films in the 2003–2005 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Other Asia Landscape
2004 was the decade’s peak output year for Other Asia — 19 titles released, including Take Out. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (130 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 18 other Other Asia films in 2004.
The 155th Other Asia title from Other Asia we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1949).
Our Other Asia catalog contains 547 titles in total (522 films).
Audience Engagement
12 audience reviews — more than 25% of Other Asia films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 45th percentile among Other Asia films.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #326 of 547 Other Asia films indexed here (40th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Other Asia Drama productions specifically: #241 of 356 (top 68%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Other Asia |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | United States of America |
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, English, Spanish |
| Production Companies | Cre Film |
| Runtime | 1h 27m |
| Release Date | May 13, 2004 |
| IMDb | tt0391483 |







