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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

A tale of forbidden love.

6.9(253)19191h 28m2

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$2.4M
Language
No Language
  • suicide
  • london, england
  • china
  • boxer
  • buddhist
  • murder
  • racism
  • black and white
  • alcoholic
  • silent film
  • based on short story

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York13 May 1919
    • TheatricalNR20 Oct 1919
  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalPG13 May 1919
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical121 May 1923
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG4 Apr 1922
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1519 Jan 1920

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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl was released on 13 May 1919.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/6/2022

    7/10

    Richard Barthelmess and an almost porcelain-looking Lilian Gish are both great in this intimate, beautifully photographed, tale of a true love. Gish is a young girl from London's East end who is persistently brutalised by her violent pugilist father. Barthelmess is a man newly arrived from China bent on encouraging the British to seek the peaceful ways of the Buddha. From his small emporium, he espies this young girl…

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