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Flower Drum Song : Mei Li Meets Wang Ta

Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) meets Wang Ta (James Shigeta) for the first time. After their introductions, Mei Li sings, "I Am Going to Like It Here."

Mei Li Meets Wang Ta

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close-up, dissolve, ellipsis, full shot, high angle, long shot, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, music, semidiegetic, musical theme , over the shoulder shot, pan, tracking shot, two-shot

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Asian: East Asian, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Migrant

"Mei Li Meets Wang Ta" in Flower Drum Song. Directed by Henry Koster, Universal Pictures, 1961, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2593

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