JADE PENDANT [OPENING night FILM]
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
7:30 PM Brattle Theater / 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA (T: Harvard Square) Directed by Po-Chih Leung 106 mins | USA | Narrative WORLD PREMIERE Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony (Clara) signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom (Godfrey Gao), an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss (Tzi Ma) seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871. Starring: Godfrey Gao 高以翔, Clara Lee 클라라, Russell Wong, Tsai Chin, Brian Yang, Nina Wu, Chen Tang, Jamie Harris, with Mark Boone Junior and Tzi Ma Screenplay by David Assael and Scott Rosenfelt Based on the novel by: L.P. Leung WATCH TRAILER Co-presented by:
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