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Dragon Seed - (Original Trailer)

Katharine Hepburn plays a Chinese woman who fights to survive the Japanese occupation during World War II in Dragon Seed (1944).

Enter The Dragon - (Original Trailer)

Three agents (Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon) go after an international super-villain in the martial-arts spectacular Enter The Dragon (1973).

Killing Fields, The - (Original Trailer)

The true story of how a Cambodian interpreter (Haing S. Ngor) to an American journalist fought to survive the country's brutal Communist dictatorship.

Flower Drum Song - (Original Trailer)

A refugee travels to Chinatown as a mail-order bride in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical comedy Flower Drum Song (1961).

Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Third Invitation

American missionary bride and semi-willing captive Megan (Barbara Stanwyck) is startled from a nap (actually an erotic dream in which he himself appeared_ by General Yen (Nils Asther) but once more rebuffs his advances in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Killing Fields, The (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Cooper-Church Amendment

Journalists Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and Rockoff (John Malkovich) witness a Phnom Penh bombing, interpreter Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) arriving, and an army officer (Craig T. Nelson) interfering, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

Enter The Dragon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) A Good Martial Artist

Opening scene said to have been directed by the star, Bruce Lee dominates a student (future Hong Kong martial arts star, producer and director Sammo Hung), then consults with a master (Roy Chiao), in Lee’s last film, the first martial arts feature by a Hollywood studio, Enter The Dragon. 1973.

Enter The Dragon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Oharra's Treachery

At the tournament sponsored by crooked Shaolin master Han (Shih Kien) on his private island, Lee (Bruce Lee), whom the organizers don’t know is an agent sent to break up their criminal scheme, duels creepy Oharra (Robert Wall), who resorts to cheating, in Enter The Dragon, 1973.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Megan Dreams

Much remarked upon sequence, stretching Production Code boundaries, Barbara Stanwyck as Megan, the American bride-to-be, somewhat willingly in the maybe-protective custody of the powerful Chinese warlord title character, played by Swedish-born Nils Asther, dozes into provocative realms, directed by Frank Capra, in The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Such Fun Going Steady

James Shigeta (as Wang Ta) and Nancy Kwan (as showgirl Linda) discuss their immediate future in a San Francisco Chinatown cafe in director Henry Koster's Flower Drum Song, 1961, from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

Dragon Seed -- (Movie Clip) The Enemy

Ling (Walter Huston) and "Third Cousin" (Henry Travers) lead Chinese villagers in planning for and receiving the Japanese invaders in Dragon Seed, 1944.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Ready For The Slaughter

Second scene for Barbara Stanwyck as Megan, arrived in strife-torn China to marry her missionary fiancè (Gavin Gordon, who appears shortly), with Clara Blandick her (probably racist) host, wondering aloud about an encounter with the title character, whose name she didn’t get, Frank Capra directing, in Columbia’s The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) It Will Do You Good

Innocent American Megan (Barbara Stanwyck), having been separated from her missionary fiancè in a riot t in revolutionary China, awakens to meet Mah-Li (Toshia Mori) for the first time and General Yen (Nils Asther), her somewhat scary rescuer, for the second, in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Killing Fields, The (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Very American

Journalists Schanberg (Sam Waterston), Rockoff (John Malkovich) and Swain (Julian Sands) scramble to prevent Cambodian colleague Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) being ejected from the French embassy, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

Killing Fields, The (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Dith Pran Family

Evacuating from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodian Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), colleague Schanberg (Sam Waterston) helping, races to get his family to the choppers, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

Enter The Dragon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) An Island Fortress, Really

In Hong Kong, Lee (Bruce Lee), sent on a mission of honor from his Shaolin school, is briefed by a British intelligence agent (Geoffrey Weeks), who’s after the same guy, Han (Shih Kien), and his goon Oharra (Robert Wall) for various crimes, early in Enter The Dragon, 1973.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Learned A Terrible Lesson

Framing and scale from Columbia and director Frank Capra, opening the first feature shown (to surprisingly weak box office) at Radio City Music Hall, Clara Blandick greeting fellow missionaries in China, Emmett Corrigan the sanguine bishop, in The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Am Going to Like it Here

James Shigeta (as student Wang Ta, scion of a prosperous San Francisco Chinese family) greets Miyoshi Umeki (as picture-bride Mei Li), just arrived from China, leading into her Asian-inflected song by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, in Flower Drum Song, 1961.

Killing Fields, The (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Cambodia

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Enter The Dragon (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Han's Prison

Having penetrated the underground prison where master criminal Han keeps kidnapped prostitutes etc. on his private island, star and uncredited co-director Bruce Lee takes on all comers, including future superstar Jackie Chan at about one-minute twenty-seconds, in Enter The Dragon, 1973.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Enjoy Being a Girl

Nancy Kwan (as Chinese-American showgirl Linda) strikes dozens of Western poses in a dazzling display by designer Irene, in the saucy Rodgers & Hammerstein number (dubbed by top vocalist Betty Jane "BJ" Baker, the former Mrs. Mickey Rooney), in Flower Drum Song, 1961.

Bitter Tea Of General Yen, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) For Some Nameless Brats?

Chinese warlord General Yen (Nils Asther) is counseled by his crooked American business associate Jones (Walter Connolly) and unmoved by brave missionary Dr. Bob Strike (Gavin Gordon, fiancè of top-billed Barbara Stanwyck) in Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea Of General Yen, 1933.

Dragon Seed -- (Movie Clip) Refugees

Jade (Katharine Hepburn) and Wu Lien (Akim Tamiroff) make plans to leave their village, parting with Ling (Walter Huston) and joining the refugees in Dragon Seed, 1944.

Flower Drum Song (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Chop Suey

Another Rodgers & Hammerstein original which has long split opinion (Is it cultural stereotyping or knowing commentary?), Juanita Hall reprising her stage role as Madame Liang of San Francisco, receiving a citizenship award then supported by Jim Shigeta (who, it is sometimes forgotten, started out as a singer), Jack Soo, Benson Fong et al, in Flower Drum Song, 1961.