Flower Drum Song (1961)

Directed by

Henry Koster

Genre

musical film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Chinese American woman in San Francisco's Chinatown navigates family expectations and romance. Two men pursue her, leading to comedic and musical mishaps.

romanticlightheartedmusicalupbeatwhimsicalcolorfulwarm

What happens

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 American musical film directed by Henry Koster, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, premiered on Broadway in 1958, which in turn was based on the 1957 novel by Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee. The film stars Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Benson Fong and Juanita Hall. It was nominated for five Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Flower Drum Song is the first major Hollywood feature film to have a majority Asian-American cast in a contemporary Asian-American story. It would be the last film to do so for more than 30 years, until The Joy Luck Club (1993). In 2008, Flower Drum Song was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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