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• Title: Flower Drum Song
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Adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, Flower Drum Song became the first contemporary Asian-American story featuring an Asian cast produced as a major Hollywood feature film. Like the play, the movie met with mixed responses with some praising Hollywood focusing on Asian-American characters while others took issue with Asian stereotypes, casting both Japanese and Chinese actors for the Chinese roles, and some problematic lyrics (also causing major productions of the play to halt for decades). In 2008 the film was added to National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally significant, so significant it took Hollywood three decades to release another major film centered around, and starring, predominantly Asian leads.

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