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Keye Luke (film)
''Keye Luke'' is a 2012 American short film directed by Timothy Tau, written by Timothy Tau, Ed Moy and Feodor Chin, and produced by Timothy Tau. Synopsis The short film is a documentary and narrative hybrid bio-pic focusing on the earlier life and work of Keye Luke during the 1920s-1940s, a pioneering Asian American actor and painter most known for his roles as the Number One Son, Lee Chan, in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s, and as the very first Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet, decades before Bruce Lee. Luke shares a hometown with Lee (Seattle, Washington) and has several other similarities with Lee as well. Luke also played Detective James Lee Wong in the ''Phantom of Chinatown'' (1940), taking over the role of " Mr. Wong" (played by Boris Karloff) and becoming the first leading Asian American detective character in U.S. cinematic history. This role is covered in the film, as well as Luke's work in films such as ''Secret Agent X-9''. Feodor Chin plays Keye Luke, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Tau
Timothy Tau (born Timothy Tau Hsieh ( ); Chinese: 謝韜; pinyin: Xiè Tāo) is a Taiwanese-American writer, engineer, attorney, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 ''Hyphen magazine, Hyphen'' Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of ''Hyphen (magazine), Hyphen'' magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 ''Playboy'' College Fiction Contest for his short story, "Land of Origin" (see the October 2010 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine). He has also directed a number of short films and music videos that have screened at various film festivals worldwide and on YouTube. Writing Tau's short story "The Understudy" is a comic-surrealist story about an Asian American actor named Jack Chang struggling in Los Angeles who must deal with the sudden emergence of a mysterious new understudy named Hyde on a production of a play (Eugène Ionesco's ''Rh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kato (Green Hornet)
Kato, name=, group= is a fictional character from ''The Green Hornet'' franchise. This character has appeared with the Green Hornet in radio, film, television, book and comic book versions. Kato was the Hornet's assistant and has been played by a number of actors. On radio, Kato was initially played by Raymond Hayashi, then Roland Parker who had the role for most of the run, and in the later years Mickey Tolan and Paul Carnegie. Keye Luke took the role in the movie serials, and in the The Green Hornet (TV series), television series, he was portrayed by Bruce Lee. Jay Chou played Kato in the 2011 The Green Hornet (2011 film), Green Hornet film. Character history Kato was Britt Reid's valet, who doubled as The Green Hornet's masked driver and partner to help him in his vigilante adventures, disguised as the activities of a racketeer and his chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer. According to the storyline, years before the events depicted in the series, Britt Reid had saved Kato's life while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |