the jade pendant

THE JADE PENDANT Review: True Love Stained in Racial Hatred

The plot of this film leads to one of the darkest days in American history, the largest lynching ever occurred in the stars spangled banner country, an event that happened in Los Angeles Chinatown back in 1871, when an angry mass stormed through LA chinatown, lynching every chinese citizen that stood on their way killing an estimated 18 to 20 chinese immigrant having no consequences for it. (The best TV series that you are not watching, “Warrior” did an excellent ficticional recreation of this happening on their second season) However, this movie only uses that incident as excuse to tell a corny love story that revolves around a girl (Carmen Lee) who arrives to San Francisco running away from an arranged marriage in Guandong, her hometown and a cook (Godfrey Hao), who´s expecting to get rich in the gold rush. Their love story leads to the Chinatown massacre. The […]

THE JADE PENDANT: Love In A Time Of Servitude And War In The Latest Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Veteran director Po Chih-Leong (Hong Kong 1941, The Detonator) has arrived back in the press this season since circulating his latest Western period drama, The Jade Pendant. Crimson Forest Films nabbed the rights back in May and are now following up on its earlier teaser with an official trailer host to a cast that features actress Clara Lee, and actors Godfrey Gao and Tzi Ma. Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony (Clara Lee) 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 – […]