From the Alvin Lin blog, by Alvin Lin on 2008-03-25 12:00 PM (original link)

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi wrote, produced and directed an independent documentary called “The Slanted Screen,” which examines the history of Asian American men in American cinema. Adachi covers Hollywood’s stereotypical portrayals of Asian men as either an evil “Fu Manchu’’ character or as an asexual nerd. The movie was shown at a previous San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The movie features interviews with Mako, James Shigeta and Dustin Nguyen.

Here is a link to the documentary website and a news article:

There was a segment on NPR awhile ago, and I took some notes of the interview below.

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To this day, Rosie still believes she did nothing wrong.

i know! i really enjoyed how sing responded back.

This documentary is a must-see.  Jeff Adachi did a great service for all of us by making this film.

It’s on mah list

minty - 03/26/08 12:02 am

To this day, Rosie still believes she did nothing wrong.

Tell me about it. It’s an insult to humanity that she is still on the air at all. It makes my blood boil everytime I flick on the t.v. and I flick by a channel and there she goes.

I bought this dvd a few months ago and shared it with family and friends. It definitely is a must see.

I saw this doc on TCM a couple of weeks ago.  Definitely worth checking out.  It’s amazing to hear that one of the very first leading romantic male actors in Hollywood was Japanese-American…