Blind Alleys was a play written by David Henry Hwang and Frederic Kimball, filmed and aired as a 1985 television special produced by WCVB-TV for Metromedia.
The film features Pat Morita, Cloris Leachman, and co-writer Kimball.
As the play begins, their daughter is scheduled to be married in a few days at the bowling alley owned together by Fran and Woody, Fran's friend and business partner, but she will not proceed with the wedding if her father is not present to give her away.
Stricken by guilt, Kenji shows up at the wedding, where he is accosted by the groom's small-town parents; the groom's father, a dealer of John Deere farm equipment, is worried about competition from Japanese manufacturers.
The film was directed by Bill Cosel and David Wheeler; it was co-written by pre-eminent Asian American dramatist Hwang and Kimball.