Product Description
•This collection is a “Limited Edition” -- available only while supplies last.
•Forbidden City, U.S.A. DVDs for home use are available only in this collection -- they are not sold individually.
4-DVD Box Set includes:
HOLLYWOOD CHINESE – Special Collector’s Edition
Hollywood Chinese brings together a captivating portrait of film artists and iconic images for a high-spirited look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. Starring a virtual who’s who of top Chinese and Chinese American talent, including Ang Lee, Nancy Kwan, Amy Tan, James Hong, B.D. Wong, Joan Chen, Wayne Wang, and David Henry Hwang; with special appearances by veteran character actor Christopher Lee (Fu Manchu) and the legendary double-Oscar® winner, Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, 1937). 89 minutes, plus over 3.5 hours of bonus footage.
BONUS: The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest known Chinese American feature film produced in 1916. Restored with a newly recorded music score.
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES:
•Vintage trailers, including Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
•Flower Drum Song world premiere news footage, 1961
•D.W. Griffith’s 1910 That Chink at Golden Gulch
•Gallery of pre-1950s movie memorabilia
•Interview outtakes with the stars of Hollywood Chinese
•Soundies: 1940s music videos, including Chinatown, My Chinatown ...plus much, much more!
FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A. – Special Collector’s Edition
Forbidden City, U.S.A. is a delightful documentary about the little-known stories of Chinese American nightclub performersin World War II San Francisco. Compared to the Cotton Club of Harlem, which featured America’s finest black entertainers, the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco gained an international reputation with its unique showcase of Chinese American entertainers. The film combines remarkable archival film and photographs with interviews to show a generation of Asian American pioneers who fought cultural barriers and racism to pursue their love for American song and dance. 56 minutes, plus over 20 minutes of bonus footage.
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES:
•Rare vintage performance footage
•Original 1950s promotional film
•Bonus featurettes
•Additional interviews
•Galleries of performers
•8-page color booklet
•Historical essay
•Scrapbook of “Chop Suey Circuit” memorabilia ....and more!
A TOISAN TRILOGY
The first major wave of Chinese came to America primarily from southern China, with a heavy concentration from the Toisan (Taishan) region of Guangdong Province. For the first time together, A Toisan Trilogy presents three award-winning short films directed by Arthur Dong that draw upon this early period of Chinese migration to America. The anthology includes:
Sewing Woman: an Oscar®-nominated documentary that reveals one woman’s journey, from an arranged marriage in Toisan to working class comforts in modern America. BONUS: Chinese-subtitled version included. 14 minutes.
Living Music for Golden Mountains: a touching portrait of Arthur Dong’s Chinese music teacher, Leo Lew, an immigrant from Toisan who toiled as a laundry worker but kept spiritually alive through his love of music. Produced in 1981 with Elizabeth Meyer, Living Music for Golden Mountains marks Dong’s documentary directorial debut and won a Regional Academy Student Film Award for Best Documentary. DVD includes a new director’s cut of the film. 18 & 27 minutes.
Lotus: a fictionalized film set in the Toisan village of Kay Lok. Lotus is a woman in 1914 China with bound feet who must make a life-changing choice while her husband is in America. BONUS: galleries of vintage bound feet shoes and historic photos of women with bound feet. 27 minutes.
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