Yellow

Yellow (1998)

Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he loses a large sum of his dad's money. The friends rally together to attempt to raise the money back in one evening in a wild and desperate scavenger hunt.

Date of release
1998-05-29
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Chris Chan Lee

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Yellow is an American 1997 comedy drama film directed by Chris Chan Lee. The film follows eight Korean–American youths in Los Angeles over the course of a wild night before their high school graduation. The film stars an ensemble cast including Michael Chung, John Cho, Burt Bulos, Jason Tobin, and Lela Lee. The film had its world premiere at the 15th CAAMFest in San Francisco in 1997.

Production

Writer-director Chris Chan Lee said the film is "about the juxtaposition of growing up in America and having immigrant parents so you've got a cultural gap as well as a generational gap. Even now, Asian kids are forced to identify with other subcultures because there isn't anything that directly reflects their experience." Lee said the film is semi-autobiographical, as his own parents, first-generation immigrants from Korea, ran a delicatessen in…

When Lee and producer David Yang could not find studios interested in financing the film, they relied on seed money from family friends and Lee's credit cards. Yellow was shot in the L.A. neighborhoods of Redondo Beach, San Gabriel, and Koreatown for three weeks, beginning on July 15, 1996. In the midst of filming, a Japanese investor pledged his support.

The film was soundtracked by Asian-American-led indie-rock bands.

The Center for Asian American Media (then known as the National Asian American Telecommunications Association) provided funding for the completion of the film, as well as an educational distribution deal to screen the film at universities.

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