Word: sagara
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...home after 14 years of absence while on a promotional tour for her new Mama Fu Fu's chinese cookbook. To her dismay, one of her brothers is wasting his time running "Chinatown Tour'n'Travoo" tours, while the other has turned into a gangster. Her father (Carlton Sagara), on the verge of death after years of illness, has finally brought his first wife "China Mama" (Lena Chen) over to the United States. She is not enthusiastically received by number two wife or the children. To add to the chaos, "Sis" brings home a white husband...
...best of the bunch are the old people. As Mama, Chungjoon Lee struts across the stage as a matriarch, conversing cutely with her family. And Sagara's ingenious accent and ability to dotter make the character of the grumpy old Chinatown boss. Chen in the silent role of China Mama manages to make her presence felt at the play's tensest moments...
...French campaigns in Algeria (1869) two heroes are dispatched. When they return to their little French village the heroine has disappeared. Fifty years intervene and a ridiculous reunion is maneuvered with the weary principals in long white hair. The producers tried to be tragic, and succeeded in being funny. Sagara battle scenes and the acting of Charles DeRoche are the major marks of excellence...
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