Daughter of Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai

Michelle Chen Miao • 2019

Duration: 01:27:47
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

The dramatic tale of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break to the West. From celebrity’s daughter to celebrity herself to anonymity and back, bringing significant representations of Asian to mainstream-media.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2019 Shanghai International Film Festival, China

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Michelle Chen Miao

Michelle Chen Miao

Director

“Daughter of Shanghai” , adapted with the same title, from the best-seller autobiography of Tsai Chin, the Chinese-American actress, best known for its roles as Suzie Wong, in the west-end play “The World of Suzie Wong”(1959), and as Auntie Lindo in Hollywood film “Joy Luck Club”(1993). She’s the third daughter of the Peking Opera Master Zhou XinFang 周信芳. The dramatic father-daughter relation was first-time revealed in this film. Being called “Chinese Granny” in Hollywood, (we made the postlude with the same title), she’s 85 now, still actively working in movies and voicing-over Dreamworks animations.We gathered a lot of old film footage world-wide, some footage were from Tsai Chin’s personal cuttings and archives which spanned over the last 60 years of the world cinema, theater and television, crossed three continentals. “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” with Ingrid Bergman, “007” with Sean Connery,“M Butterfly" with Anthony Hopkins, etc. From the prominence of “Suzie Wong” to now, exactly 60 years, it is the time to celebrate a big personality in world cinema–Tsai Chin.