the organization has also provided low-cost services such as vaccinations.

(Photo by Zev Rose Woolley)QA with Ron SongRafu: Before being cast in Unbroken Blossoms.wanted to depict an interracial love story.

We learn about Charlie Chaplin.Rafu Staff WriterBroken Blossoms was the title of a 1919 silent film about a romance between a white woman and a Chinese man.was paired with a white actor in yellowface.

In the end my wife and I discussed that I had to trust my instincts.he tried his earnest best for 1919.

What was so impressive about the leadership on our show was that no one asked me to put on an accent or play the character in a way that I would feel uncomfortable doing.

But watching “Broken Blossoms” and in particular.Mon Amour was released and it covered a similar romance between a Caucasian and a Japanese.

The entire community was uprooted by Executive Order 9066 in 1942 and Little Tokyo became an African American neighborhood known as Bronzeville.(The cast included Shirley Yamaguchi and Sessue Hayakawa.

I enjoy rewatching his movies and spotting props that live on in our daily lives and there are many from this particular film and also from ‘The House of Bamboo.is at another critical juncture after surviving the mass incarceration and urban renewal.