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Hawaii Chinese filmmaker Robin Lung grew up longing to be blonde and blue-eyed and doesn’t remember any Chinese American heroines in the popular culture of her youth. So when she discovers that a Chinese woman from Hawaii named Li Ling-Ai co-produced a 1941 Oscar-winning film called KUKAN, her amazement quickly turns to an obsession to learn ...
14 mar 2022 · Robin Lung documents her journey to uncover the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the uncredited producer of the Academy® Award-winning 'Kukan.' The film sheds a light ...
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'Kukan': The Battle Cry of China: Directed by Bud Pollard. With Niles Welch. Story of China's fight for freedom against Japan during WWII
Finding Kukan. America ReFramed Season 6. Feature Film. 2018. 60 Mins. Filmmaker Robin Lung documents her 7-year journey to uncover the efforts of Li Ling-Ai, the visionary but uncredited producer of Kukan. Lung discovers a damaged film print of Kukan, and pieces together the untold tale of the two renegades behind its making — Li Ling-Ai and ...
KUKAN’s impact went far beyond the world of film. When the it premiered in NYC on June 23, 1941 the U.S. was still maintaining a policy of neutrality in military conflicts abroad. But the film clearly depicted the brutality of the Japanese military machine against the citizens of China, and it ...
AMPAS. for Restoration. Robin Lung & Leigh Mierke prepare to film the initial inspection of KUKAN at AMPAS. Producer Robin Lung travels to Los Angeles to film the arrival of the only known full print of the 1941 Oscar-winning documentary KUKAN at the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archives in Los ...
By blowing the film up to 35mm United Artists was able to book KUKAN in more theaters, and the film screened widely across America and Canada through 1943. But the film fell into obscurity after World War II ended, and film historians considered it a “lost” film for decades. Sources: Finding KUKAN. Dir. Robin Lung. DVD. New Day Films, 2017.
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