Daily Archives: March 25, 2009

ISA SF 2009 Concert Videos

We’ve talked to a lot of movie studio and record label peeps in the past and none of them know how to really market or promote Asian American males without stereotypes. Wong Fu Productions and Far East Movement showed that this can be done by selling out the ISA SF Concert almost 3 weeks before. Not only did they promote themselves, but also other artists too like Passion and Paul Dateh. (Yo, movie studios and record labels times are changing.) The ISA SF Concert was definitely high energy. There’s a bunch of times we wanted just to jump on the stage and join the performers. Lots of Asian American peeps were enjoying Asian American talent. The glowsticks never stopped moving. FM and Wong Fu, you guys are ANIMALS. channelAPA.com rates the ISA Concert 3 fingers up!!

Far East Movement and Wong Fu did a great job putting this event together and gettin’ their boy Jin to come out from HK They hauled stuff from LA to SF to put on the show. They backed up tha Asian American collaboration truck and just brought to SF. They did this with a small crew and support of their fans and volunteers. That’s impressive!! They guys can’t stop, won’t stop. Even airport security can’t stop them from putting on a show an meeting fans. Although the International Secret Agents Concert had humble beginnings, we definitely see huge opportunities for ISA moving forward. Next ISA stop is Los Angeles later this year.

Read more from out previous post on International Secret Agents SF 2009. The footage for ISA SF 2009 has now exploded on YouTube. channelAPA.com had a backstage pass and put together a vid ourselves. Watch the vid and the playlist full of ISA footage. If you see ISA SF 2009 footage, we are missing let us know. Also pictures have been put up by Shinobi Studios check them here and here. (Shoutout to Tom Ngo for the shout out on stage!!)

ISA SF 2009

ISA SF 2009 Playlist

Millionaire in the Making

Millionaire Music Video in the Making (Far East Movement x Wong Fu Productions x Jin x Todd Angkasuwan). We interviewed Far East Movement just a few weeks ago and a Millionaire Music Video was only a possibility. Well now it’s a reality with Jin coming over from HK from ISA SF 2009. These guys move fast when they wanna get things done.

Looking forward to the music video. You can get the Millionaire single on Amazon or The Far East Movement - Animal - Millionaire (feat. Jin the MC). Makes us wanna watch About That Money.

Interview with Far East Movement about Millionaire

Behind the scenes of Millionaire Music Video at 4Cthepower.

You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story



From the guy that brought you “Slanted Screen” comes “You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story”. San Francisco Public Defender and director Jeff Adachi delivers another great documentary to us. “You Don’t Know Jack” is a 60-minute film telling Jack Soo’s story through a montage of film and television clips, rare footage, interviews with family members, friends, co-workers, and others who knew him best. Jack Soo aka Goro Suzuki was the first Asian American to be cast in the lead role in a regular television series Valentine’s Day (1963), and later starred in the popular comedy show Barney Miller (1975-1978). (He was Detective Nick Yemana on Barney Miller.) The film traces Jack’s early beginnings as a nightclub singer and comedian, to his breakthrough role as Sammy Fong in Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway play and film version of The Flower Drum Song. The film gives a new perspective of what is was like for a Japanese American during the time of internment camps as well as how Jack Soo wasn’t willing just to take a stereotypical role to build his career.



The film premiered at the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Look for it coming to a film festival near you.

You Don’t Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story Trailer