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Director   Lily Mariye

The Shangri-la Cafe is a 2000 film written and directed by Lily Mariye. The film is about a Japanese American family who conceal their identity and reluctantly adopt discriminatory practices in order to operate a Chinese restaurant within the hostile cold war climate of Las Vegas in the late 1950s.

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Cast

  • Montana Tsai as Annie Takashi
  • Joanne Takahashi as Emiko Takashi
  • Sam Anderson as The Man
  • Christopher Chen as Tad Takashi
  • Albert Chien as Jimmy Takashi
  • Cedric Harris as Reverend Charles Osteen
  • Montae Russell as eorge Brooks (as Monté Russell)
  • Margaret Laurena Kemp as Mildred Brooks
  • Kelli Kirkland as Helen Osteen
  • Charles 'Brick' Tilley Jr. as Man #2
  • Bob Bergen as Television Announcer (voice)
  • Reviews

    “It’s an impressive directing debut for actress Lily Mariye. Heartfelt and unusually sensitive to the heightened experience of children, “The Shangri-la Cafe” is a strong showcase for Mariye’s directing talents. It deserves to be expanded into a feature.”
    -Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

    "An extraordinary debut by a unique new voice in American filmmaking."
    -Jonathan Kaplan, Director, The Accused, Over the Edge

    "... Lily is a director with vision."
    -Anthony Edwards, Actor/Director

    "A compelling and emotional story, superbly told, Lily Mariye has much to say and this is a powerful beginning"
    -Lesli Linka Glatter, Director, The Proposition, Now and Then, State of Emergency

    "A stirring evocation of a very personal place and time, 'The Shangri-la Cafe' serves up a tender, bittersweet childhood recollection of a not always glittering Las Vegas past."
    -Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

    Awards

  • National Organization for Women Filmmaker of the Year (Lily Mariye)
  • Best Short Film Award, Moondance International Film Festival
  • Best Screenplay Award, Brussels Independent Film Festival
  • 2nd place, Best Short Film, Nashville Film Festival
  • 2nd place, Best Short Film, Woodstock Film Festival
  • Official selection

  • BBC British Short Film (London)
  • Seattle International Film Festival
  • Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films
  • Hamptons International Film Festival
  • American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
  • Athens International
  • Sepia Women of Color (Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.)
  • Big Bear
  • Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video
  • New York Asian American International
  • San Francisco Asian American
  • Women of Color (Berkeley, CA)
  • Sedona Film Festival
  • Shades of Power (S.F., CA)
  • Chicago Asian American Showcase
  • San Diego Asian Film Festival
  • Slant (Houston, TX)
  • University of Iowa
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  • Portobello Film (London)
  • Woodstock Film (NY)
  • Blue Sky International Film (Las Vegas)
  • Magnolia Festival
  • Yale Women in Film Festival
  • References

    The Shangri-la Cafe Wikipedia
    The Shangri la Cafe IMDb