Product Details

• Actors: David Zaugh, Steven Anthony Jones, Derek Kwong, Le Le Niu, Ken Narasaki
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Korean
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Vanguard Cinema
• DVD Release Date: January 3, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000053V5L
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,525 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Yellow" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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YELLOW - DVD Movie

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Energy and Creativity Outweigh Unevenness, September 5, 2002

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David Kleist - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yellow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With the three earlier Amazon reviewers, I first celebrate this film for its obscure but crackling subject matter: teenage Korean-American life in L.A.! Second, I celebrate the film's ambition and complexity: it tries to reveal a community of characters, not merely one or two; and the plot's many twists, combined with its many ironic/jarring scene transitions, compresses a lot of ideas and commentary into a short space.

Do the parts combine into a congruent whole? No. The shocking plot twist of the film's final quarter sends the whole thing rollicking into melodrama/surrealism; and the same twist makes the ending psychologically, emotionally, and analytically unsatisfying.

However, there is soooo much to like here: The fumbling "Fur Elise"; the adolescent-to-baby-sister commentary on the shrink-wrapped doll; the aunt's colloquial comment on the cost of her nephew's birthday present; the cupped-rice soliloquy; the ATM PIN number sequence; the beach; the "pappa san" scene in the restaurant; etc. This young writer/director has perhaps bitten off more than he can chew; but his intelligence and promise are truly exciting.

I judge art by what it reveals to me about myself and about the world: good art provides unusual/unique flashes of reality and insight into the human condition. YELLOW reverberates throughout with these flashes. It is the work of a creative, intelligent, artistic young director whose potential is overwhelming.

I can only hope that the Biz gives him many chances for future explorations of life, love, and culture-clash.

By the way, the film is extremely funny/ironic throughout, and the musical soundtrack is marvellous.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Movie about Asians seen through Asian Eyes, January 8, 2001

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Alain Jean Claude - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yellow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw this movie about a year on the Independant Film Channel. It was such a great movie about the life of Asian Americans. Many Asian Americans in real life are in a current struggle between their family's traditional culture and the American way of life. In this movie we see the lives of a group of asian friends and how different each of their families influence their lives as they go through two transitions -- 1) from high school to college, 2) tradition vs. mainstream culture. Many Americans and mainstream media portrays Asians as really successful people with no problems or they are portrayed as some Ninjas beating people. They are never seen as common humans. This is probably one of the first attempts to see Asians from an Asian America perspective.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad, August 4, 2004

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Thomas Yan Ong "feilung888" (Azusa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yellow (DVD)

After most of the reviews I've read, I didn't want to see this film anymore, but I was at Hollywood Video and I saw it there for rent. I watched it and I was pretty entertained. It was funny and I could relate to some of the characters in the film. I also liked the idea of an Asian dominated cast in an American film. I think it's worth checking this out. I think it deserves more credit than it's getting.