Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976, English. Directed by Jon Alpert & Yoko Maruyama & Keiko Tsuno.
Produced by DCTV in response to what its makers saw as distorted media portrayals of New York City’s Chinatown, "Chinatown: Immigrants in America" (1976) offers an unvarnished portrait of an immigrant community confronting poverty, labor exploitation, and cultural displacement. Directed by Jon Alpert and Yoko Maruyama, the film documents restaurant, garment, and service workers enduring low wages and unsafe conditions while struggling to build lives in America.
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- 0h 59m
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- English
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- 1 November 1976
- Country
- United States of America
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- Jon Alpert
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Who directed Chinatown: Immigrants in America?
Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) was directed by Jon Alpert and Yoko Maruyama and Keiko Tsuno and stars Jon Alpert, Lap Wong, Ting Yu.