From Times of San Diego
Pacific Arts Movement opened the 15th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival on Thursday with the action film, “Revenge of the Green Dragons.”
The Asian Film Festival opening night film “Revenge of the Green Dragons.’ Photo by Alexander Nguyen/Times of San Diego
The film festival is now a teenager, executive director Lee Ann Kim joked during the opening remarks before the film screening.
“Revenge of the Green Dragons” is a crime drama set in 1980’s New York. Based on a true story, the film follows two young brothers who are pulled into the world of organized crime in Chinatown. Produced by Martin Scorcese, the film was co-directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo. The film stars — Leonard Wu, Harry Shum Jr. and Eugenia Yuan — and Loo were in attendance and participated in a question-and-answer session after the screening.
“Basing off a true story and finding what I can put into this character, Paul Wong, who is a real person, who actually existed but didn’t have much (written about him) so I had to to develop a lot of it,” Shum said. “Andrew Lau and Loo had specific ideas about the character and I got to put a little bit of my spin on it.”
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