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| No. | Title | Description |
| 544 | Eve and the Fire Horse | Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. The journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder. |
| 527 | Eyewitness: Stan Honda | Stan Honda presents the photographer's own recollections and commentary, revealing the stories behind the haunting, unforgettable images that one media commentator observed, "put a face on the human witness and survivor stories." |
| 146 | Fakin' da Funk | An accidental switch at an adoption agency sends a chinese baby to an Arican-American family. Julian is accepted into the family and his tight-knit Atlanta neighborhood, but the search for a better life takes the family to South Central L.A. where his new neighbors think Julian is pretnding to be black. For the first time in his life, Julian faces an identity crisis. |
| 35 | Fall of the I Hotel, The | This film documents one such story of an elderly Filipino community in San Francisco called Manilatown and its fight to save the meager hotel which they called home from being destroyed by urban development. It is based on a blend of cultural history and personal vignettes as it portrays the conflicts between individuals, corporations, and law enforcers. |
| 173 | Farewell My Concubine | "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame. |
| 68 | Fated to be Queer (1992) | Four Philipino gay men discuss being gay and asian in San Francisco. They discuss issues of culture, family and gay-stereotypes. |
| 194 | Filipino Americans - Discovering their Past for the Future | "Filipino Americans: Discovering their Past for the Future" is the first in-depth documentary produced about the oldest and one of the largest Asian American Ethnics in the United States. From the California Coast in 1587 and louisiana bayous in 1763, nsung Filipino Amierican men and women in univeresities and colleges, Hawaiian plantations, California migrant farms, Alaskan fish canneries, labor organizations, US navy and Army, and family, social, cultural affairs significantly have contributed to the American way of life. This is their story. |
| 471 | Fire (1996) | In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita's sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her disappointed husband Ashok (Sita's husband's brother) has taken a vow of celibacy, acquired a swami and is often gone. Eventually Jita and Radha develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands. |
| 137 | Fists of Fury (1971) | Chein is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at a ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factor, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss. |
| 152 | Flower Drum Song (1961) | A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father's disapproval. |
| 25 | Forbidden City, USA (1989) | Part "That's Entertainment" and part "PBS", Forbidden City, U.S.A. takes a dazzling and humor look at these forgotten chapter of entertainment history. The "Chinese Fred Astaire," the "Chinese Sophie Tucker," and the "Chinese Sally Rand" are just some of the players that take you back in time when the only things Chinese were known for were chop suey joints and laundries. See and hear rare performances long buried in vaults and private collections. These include new prints from 35mm nitrate negatives and music from vintage 78 records. From tap dancers to bubble dancers, from "Some of These Days" to "Alexander's Ragtime Band." It's all here...with a new angle! |
| 75 | Foreign Talk (1993) | A Chinese American woman is confronted by two African American men while riding a commuter train. Their exchange portrays difficulties and tensions between cultures, then reveals thought-provoking possibilities for human relationships. An excellent short narrative for discussions about cross-cultural understanding, communication and stereotypes. |
| 40 | Four Women | Courage and uncompromised idealism often drive the invisible work of women in America. These are the stories of four women who touch the lives of Asians and non-Asians alike. |
| 45 | Frankly Speaking | High school years are a critical period for the development of self-esteem necessary for success in the adult world fraught with responsibilities. In Frankly Speaking, high school students, teachers, employers, and counselors discuss the challenges facing young Asian American women as they move from adolescence to adulthood. |
| 43 | Freckled Rice | Freckled Rice is about 13-year old Joe Soo, a restaurant owner's son, and his relationships with relatives spanning three generations. The relatives include an older brother who has a white girlfriend and has long since moved out of Chinatown, his parents who are about to uproot Joe from Boston's Chinatown to New Hampshire in the hopes of finding an easier time in the restaurant business, and his impoverished grandfather who serves as Joe's mentor and remains in his tiny basement apartment in the old neighborhood. Beautifully acted and directed with an insider's touch, this subtle and honest film captures the enigmas of cross-cultural adolescence snd a young boy's journey in understanding them. |
| 195 | Free David Wong | N/A |
| 547 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Forest Whitaker makes an unlikely modern samurai with his laser-sighted pistols, shabby street clothes, and oddly graceful gait--but then Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is an unusual film. Quirky, contemplative, and at times absurd, it's just the kind offbeat vision we've come to expect from the fiercely independent Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Dead Man). Whitaker is Ghost Dog, a mysterious New York hit man who lives simply on a tenement rooftop and follows a code of behavior outlined in Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (passages of this book are interspersed throughout the film). When the local mob marks him for death in a complicated code of Mafiosi-style honor, Ghost Dog sends a cryptic message to his foes. "That's poetry. The poetry of war," remarks mobster Henry Silva, with sudden respect upon reading the verse. He could be describing the ethereal beauty of Jarmusch's vision, full of wonderful imagery (a night drive across town seems to float in time) and off-center humor. Though it briefly stalls in a series of assassinations (Jarmusch is no action director), it settles back into character-driven drama in a quietly epic showdown, equal parts samurai adventure, spaghetti western, and existential crime movie. The film is likely too unconventional and offbeat for general audiences, but cult-movie buffs and Jarmusch fans will appreciate his idiosyncratic vision. He finds a strange sense of honor in the clash of Old World traditions, and salutes his heroes with a skewed but sincere respect. |
| 114 | Grain of Sand, A | A Grain of Sand is a solo saga of one Asian American woman breaking through the forces of silence to find her own song. In a poetic fusion of story, song, movement and video imagery, Nobuko unravels her tales from days of Japanese relocation to the events of the Los Angeles uprising. It is a ritual that takes us beyond the chasms of color and culture, beyond the faultiness in our mind...into the oneness. |
| 56 | Green Card: An American Romance (1982) | The final installment of the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series uses the deadpan syntax of television melodrama to tell the story of Sumie, a young Japanese woman who marries an American surfer/filmmaker for the green card that will allow her to pursue her artistic career. Falling prey to the seductive Hollywood fantasy of romantic love, she loses her "American Dream" of independence. Casting an ironic eye on the Los Angeles lifestyle and art scene of the early 1980s, this stylized narrative asserts that the delirium of Hollywood "reality" -- the collective memory of the media -- has a manipulative impact on the "truth" of our personal lives. As Sumie says, "The way we see family, friends, relationships -- even love -- is mass media propaganda." |
| 199 | Harold and Kumar go to White Castle | Two twenty-something stoner roommates -- one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate -- go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers. |
Video Listing
Available in the Asian American Resource Center