It’s with a heavy heart that I wonder whether we should retire “Sixteen Candles,” since it seems ... there’s Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), the Chinese foreign exchange student whose ...

New York Post film critic Sara Stewart claimed in her op-ed on Nov. 24 that the classic Gen-X coming-of-age movie Sixteen Candles should ... around the character of Chinese foreign exchange ...

Gedde Watanabe took no offense to his Sixteen Candles role. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Japanese-American actor Gedde ...

(Long Duk Dong, for the uninitiated, would be that unfortunate Asian stereotype in "Sixteen Candles" played by Asian ... on it and some incredibly gorgeous guy you meet in France and you do ...

a Chinese foreign exchange student who stays with the Bakers over the wedding weekend. Read on to see what the cast of Sixteen Candles has been up to since the film's debut.