Flower Drum Song
“Most joyous hit lights up the screen!”
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
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Cast
21 people
Nancy Kwan
Linda Low
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James Shigeta
Wang Ta
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Miyoshi Umeki
Mei Li
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Benson Fong
Wang Chi-Yang
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Charley Varrick
Jack Soo
'Sammy' Fong
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Barney Miller
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Juanita Hall
'Auntie' Liang
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South Pacific
Reiko Sato
Helen Chao
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Woman on the Run
Patrick Adiarte
Wang San
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Kam Tong
Doctor Li
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It Happened at the World's Fair
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Victor Sen Yung
Frankie Wing
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Bonanza
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Soo Yong
Madame Ten Fong
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Ching Wah Lee
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The Good Earth
Henry Koster Director · Joseph Fields Screenplay C.Y. Lee Author
Worldwide gross $5M · Budget $4M · United States release November 9, 1961
Box office
Budget
$4,000,000
Worldwide gross
$5,000,000
Gross vs. budget
1.3×
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
Fields Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Cantonese · Chinese · English
Release dates
United States · November 9, 1961
Theatrical
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