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Asian Stories Book 3 | a dramedy with a girl

How's this for a great story: A few years ago Ron Oda, an LA businessman, dropped everything and teamed up with college friend Kris Chin to make an entertaining Asian Pacific American film. Why? Because they grew tired of the Asian Pacific American films that rehashed historical and experimental films. In the words of Oda: "Can you guys do something else? We want to provide entertainment that people can enjoy. Here's something that’s different, not an internment camp movie." So they honed their skills by reading "Filmmaking for Dummies" and spent the next 8 months writing.

The result? ASIAN STORIES (BOOK 3)--there still isn't a Book 1 or 2--a dark comedy about a Chinese American (James Kyson Lee of Heroes) whose fiancee of 5 years leaves him for their Filipino American wedding deejay. Lee's character asks his ex-con best friend (Kirt Kishita) to kill him before Valentines Day and put him out of his lonely misery.

The film, which has won numerous awards at film festivals, and support from filmmakers Eric Byler and Justin Lin. Go see Asian Stories Book 3: "It has to be good. I would say go support the movie because it's good, not because it's Asian," said Oda. True that.

* Asian Stories Book 3 official website: www.asianstoriesmovie.com

* Asian Stories Book 3 MySpace: http://myspace.com/asianstories

* See Youtube videos of Asian Stories Book 3 trailers and making of clips: http://youtube.com/asianstories

*Kirt Kishita (left) and James Kyson Lee in a scene from Asian Stories Book 3:

SYNPOSIS:

Asian Stories (Book 3) is an amazing feature length film that tells a story unlike any other. Jim is a young Chinese American living in LA who desperately finds himself with a stack of white flower themed disposable cameras, fleur-de-lis invitations, a number of champagne bottles, and a ten-thousand dollar engagement ring bill. The only thing missing is a bride. In financial debt and miserable for having his fiancée leave two weeks prior to Valentine's day, Jim tries to resurface his dignity and wash away his wretchedness by asking his best friend, a Japanese hitman whose passion for cooking fancy entrees extends far beyond his kitchen, to kill him just in time to miss the Hallmark holiday. With less than four days to live, Jim, while wearing his wedding tuxedo the entire time, treks to the mountains to find his fate, meet a pizza delivery boy with lucky charms, the funeral spot of his choice, and a girl.

* Read "Equal Opportunity Comedy" by Lynda Lin, Assitant Editor of Pacific Citizen News & Information for the Asian American Community (Published November 17, 2006): www.pacificcitizen.org

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