三级aa视频在线观看-三级国产-三级国产精品一区二区-三级国产三级在线-三级国产在线

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Across America

Chinese resistance film rediscovered

By Lia Zhu in San Francisco | China Daily USA | Updated: 2017-03-17 10:43

A film that tracks a long-lost, awarding-winning documentary about Chinese resistance against the Japanese invasion during World War II is expected to educate the public about the history and draw lessons from the past.

Finding Kukan, a documentary by filmmaker Robin Lung, depicts the journey to rediscover Kukan, a previously lost color documentary produced by Chinese-American playwright Li Ling-Ai from 1937 to 1940.

Kukan is the Chinese pronunciation for "hard working", a quality that the film's producer believed helped Chinese people win the war.

"It means bitter struggle, or perseverance against all odds," said Lung. "The same model can be used for us in our everyday life - going ahead in the world which is very complicated and difficult. And we all have to go forward in a positive way and try to live our lives as best as we can."

In 1937, Li decided to make a movie to record war-torn China with her own money. She hired Rey Scott, a photojournalist from the US Midwest and a foreign correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph, to shoot the documentary in China.

The film offered American audiences a rare glimpse of the people of China, finishing off with footage of the devastating August 1940 bombardment of Chongqing. The color documentary won an Honorary Academy Award in 1941.

But the film faded from view after the war was over. Kukan was officially categorized as a "lost" film by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences until 2009, when Lung discovered a copy of it.

"As I was discovering the story, I was so enchanted that I kept on discovering more and more information," said Lung. It took her seven years to finally complete the film in 2015, which marked the 70th anniversary of the end of the Chinese People's War Against Japanese Aggression.

Finding Kukan also explores questions of racial and gender prejudice in a time when the Chinese Exclusion Act was in full effect - such as how a Chinese-American woman helped produce a documentary to win an Honorary Academy Award when open racism toward Asian Americans was the norm.

"The journey of Li Ling-Ai and Rey Scott was very inspirational," said Lung. "When I was discovering the part of history I didn't know about, I was also discovering the connection to my Chinese heritage.

"Many people identify with my journey and are inspired by my journey as well as the journey of Rey Scott and Li Ling-Ai 75 years ago," she said.

Finding Kukan adapts the form of traditional Chinese shadow puppetry to tell the historical story of Li and Scott, said Lung. The team collaborated with a shadow theater director in San Francisco and used actors to cast shadows for the scenes.

Aside from the shadows, the team also created a dramatic monologue based on the actual written words of Li and Scott and their interviews.

To bring the monologue to life, actress Kelly Hu voices the character of Li as a young woman, and Daniel Dae Kim voices Scott, according to Lung.

The documentary was screened on March 11 in San Francisco and nominated for the best documentary at CAAMFest, an Asian-American film festival in San Francisco. The film had been screened in Honolulu and New York and received a special jury award for documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

liazhu@chinadailyusa.com

Chinese resistance film rediscovered

Polar icebreaker Snow Dragon arrives in Antarctic
Xi's vision on shared future for humanity
Air Force units explore new airspace
Premier Li urges information integration to serve the public
Dialogue links global political parties
Editor's picks
Beijing limits signs attached to top of buildings across city
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 中文日韩字幕一区在线观看 | 国产精彩视频在线观看免费蜜芽 | 国产一级一片免费播放视频 | 久久麻豆亚洲精品 | 国产精品长腿丝袜第一页 | 欧美日韩在线观看一区二区 | 黑人草逼| 亚洲性综合网 | 久久久久久久99精品免费 | 日韩一级片播放 | 国产精品 视频一区 二区三区 | 日本美女黄色一级片 | 亚洲欧美日韩精品久久亚洲区色播 | 久草免费在线色站 | 黄色网址免费在线观看 | 欧美综合中文字幕久久 | 亚洲一区 欧美 | 一区二区三区福利 | 国产大片黄在线看免费 | 国产在线精品一区二区夜色 | 免费jizz在线播放视频 | 国产成人亚洲精品91专区手机 | 国产欧美日韩在线观看一区二区三区 | 国产后进白嫩翘臀美女图片 | 国产午夜一级鲁丝片 | 亚洲成在人网站天堂一区二区 | 成人黄色片网站 | 午夜高清免费观看视频 | 午夜性视频 | 国产精品国产三级国产专播下 | 中文字幕在线观 | 综合欧美一区二区三区 | 黄色美国大片 | 一区二区三区中文国产亚洲 | 国产视频高清在线观看 | 婷婷丁香五月中文字幕 | 一级一级女人真片 | 亚洲午夜精品久久久久久成年 | 国产群p视频 | 高清中文字幕视频在线播 | 美女污污网站 |