To Whom it May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey

An engrossing and moving film document on a very exceptional lady
With just two films, WORLD OF SUZIE WONG and FLOWER DRUM SONG, today perhaps the name Nancy Kwan seems an exotic footnote to sixties cinema, "Oh yes, that Chinese actress". But this riveting and touching documentary on Ka Shen Kwan, better known as Nancy Kwan, is an engrossing document chronicling a near remarkable life. The film opens with Kwan attending a new ballet of SUZIE WONG in Hong Kong and as she watches the performance, her story is told. Born of an interracial (Chinese father, English mother) marriage in the 1930s when such unions were frowned upon, abandoned by her mother who went back to England, a flight to China when the Japanese invade Hong Kong to avoid her father's execution, trained as a ballet dancer, plucked out of obscurity and given the leading role opposite William Holden in a major Hollywood film becoming the first Asian leading lady and Hollywood star, a floundering career when Hollywood was unable to continue to provide roles for Asian actresses, a failed...

TO WHOT MAY CONCERN KA SHENS JOURNEY
THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE ABOUT MS KWAN. SHE IS ALSO A GREAT TALENT. SAD THAT BECAUSE OF HOLLYWOOD STIGMA SHE WAS WAS NOT GIVEN MORE ROLES!!!!!!

For any Nancy Kwan fan!
This was a very touching documentary of Nancy Kawn. It detailed her childhood and family, great career (which was not common for an asian actress) and her coming to terms with the tragic death of her only child. She is as much an inspiration now as she was back in her acting hay-day. Im so glad i watched this, i recommend it for any Nancy Kawn fan.

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