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MOVIES FROM ASIAN AMERIKA
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What's Wrong With Frank Chin?  ((2005)
A novel documentary about the godfather of  modern Asian
Americanism.  Going beyond the confines of  personal
details and  the controversies raging over him during the
past 30 years,  it expands to explore the much larger
implications of the literary, ideological and cultural changes
in Asian America.   
Now available!  The Digital Remaster           
A Chonk Moonhunter exclusive: The Fall of the I-Hotel on DVD, updated  with
added bonus  material.
The Manilatown Series  (2004)
A compilation of
Tino's (1972),
Manongs: Tenants of the I-Hotel (1979),
Manilatown Lives!
(1986),  and
The Rise of the I-Hotel (2003)
Dupont Guy: The Schiz of Grant Avenue  (1976)

Dupont Guy affirms the legitimacy of Chinese-American
culture, exploring the melting pot theory, self-contempt,
schizophrenic language, duplicitous behavior.
Digitally remastered in stereo,
as it was originally meant to be heard.  
Wendy...uh...What's Her Name  (1976, 2005)

Revised and Updated !
Snipers in the Trees  (1985)

A compilation of short films.
Women
Warriors
Making Up and
The Year Of The Ox  on one DVD!
Making Up  (1974)
A look at Asian women frantically applying make-up to
their faces to become western-eyezed.
The Year of The Ox: The 1973 Chinatown
Livestock Show
 (1985)
Featuring the talents of and interviews with competitors
in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant - why they do it,
what is done to them.  Several zodiac cycles later, the
rationales for their participation remain constant, and
continue to be a forehead-slapper.
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Philip Vera Cruz, champion of the farm
workers movement, speaks not too nicely of
the capitalist system.
4.5 minutes running time
3 July 1978 - Delano, Calif.
recorded by Myron Chan for
The Fall of the I-Hotel
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Photo credits:  Curtis Choy, Nancy Wong, Jim Dong, Chris Huie
last revision 5 May  2008


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The Fall of The I-Hotel  (1983, revised1993 and 2005)
After the manongs labored to build America, their San
Francisco community is wiped out by urban renewal, and
50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International
Hotel by 300 cops in the dead of night.  This film
documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on
Kearny Street.
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(2007)  The historical meeting of resisters from WW2 and Iraq...  the real USA
patriots fighting for our civil rights from 1944 to today.  Lt. Ehren Watada, who
refused to deploy to the Iraq war, in conversation with WW2 concentration camp
draft resisters Yosh Kuromiya and Frank Emi.
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