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Year of the Fish is a 2007 American animated film based on Ye Xian, a ninth-century Chinese variant of the fairy tale Cinderella, starring Tsai Chin, Randall Duk Kim, Ken Leung and An Nguyen. Written and directed by David Kaplan, the film is set in a massage parlor in modern-day New York's Chinatown. The film was executive produced by Janet Yang and produced by Rocco Caruso.[citation needed] Kaplan's screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and was the recipient of a 2005 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship. Year of the Fish had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.[citation needed] The film was shot entirely on location in New York City’s Chinatown using live actors and then animated in post-production via rotoscoping, the process of tracing over live-action footage to create an animation; in this case, a painterly, watercolor effect. Some of the make-up on the strange-looking characters were removed by the rotoscoping.
Original Release
10/13/2007
US Release
10/13/2007
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tsai Chin | Mrs. Su |
Randall Duk Kim | Auntie Yaga / Old Man / Foreman |
An Nguyen | Ye Xian |
Sally Leung Bayer | Grandmother |
Henry Russell Bergstein | Hasidic Customer |
Buzz Bovshow | Businessman #2 |
Esther Cheng | Salon Worker #3 |
Lori Tan Chinn | Shuk Yee |
Andre De Leon | Thug |
Kim Dong | Salon Worker #5 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tsai Chin | Mrs. Su |
Randall Duk Kim | Auntie Yaga / Old Man / Foreman |
An Nguyen | Ye Xian |
Sally Leung Bayer | Grandmother |
Henry Russell Bergstein | Hasidic Customer |
Buzz Bovshow | Businessman #2 |
Esther Cheng | Salon Worker #3 |
Lori Tan Chinn | Shuk Yee |
Andre De Leon | Thug |
Kim Dong | Salon Worker #5 |
Tina Duong | Salon Worker #7 |
Wai Ching Ho | Seamstress #2 |
Anna Kim | Seamstress #1 |
Janet Lau | Salon Worker #8 |
David Lee | Fish Narration |
Paul J.Q. Lee | Wu |
Lillian Leong | Salon Worker #9 |
Bunny Levine | Tourist Woman |
Philip Levy | Businessman #1 |
Susan Li | Salon Worker #11 |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Janet Yang | Executive Producer |
David Kaplan | Producer |
Tevin Adelman | Producer |
Rocco Caruso | Producer |
Jason Orans | Producer |
Telly Wong | Producer |