

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
A tale of forbidden love.
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
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/6/2022
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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