Flower Drum Song (1961)

James Shigeta: Wang Ta

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• Wang Ta : This is not China. This is a different world. And here a man has the right to choose his own wife.

  Wang Chi-Yang : And here he also has the right to get divorced every year and pick a new one.

• Wang Ta : How do I look?

• Wang Ta : [singing]  You are beautiful, small and shy.

• Wang Ta : I need some money.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Money. That is nothing unusual. How much this time?

  Wang Ta : Twenty five bucks.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Bucks?

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : Dollars.

• Professor : And are you also proud of this fine American citizen in your family, Master Wong?

  Wang Chi-Yang : To become an American citizen it took her five years. She was Chinese in nine months.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : I am happy to be both Chinese and American.

  Wang Chi-Yang : You are like the Chinese dish the Americans invented. What do they call it?

  Wang Ta : Chop Suey.

  Wang Chi-Yang : That is it. Everything is in it. All mixed up.

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : I like that.

  [singing] 

  Madame 'Auntie' Liang : Chop Suey. Chop Suey. / Living here is very much like Chop Suey. / Hula-hoops and nucelar war, Doctor Salk and Zsa Zsa Gabor, / Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee and Dewey, Chop Suey.

  Chorus : Chop Suey!

• Wang Ta : Would you like to dance?

  Mei Li : I don't know how, but I will walk around with you while you dance.

• Wang Chi-Yang : Where have you been till this hour?

  Wang Ta : Spending the night...

  Wang Chi-Yang : Stop! Not in front of your aunt.

  Wang Ta : I beg your forgiveness, Father. You were right. I should have listened. I was a fool.

  Wang Chi-Yang : Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. Now I have my son back.

• Wang Ta : Here, they're not really married until they seal it with a kiss.

  Mei Li : Everything in America ends in a kiss. What does it mean? Why do they do it?

• Wang Chi-Yang : What do you know of marriage? What do you know of women?

  Wang Ta : Sir, what did you know of marriage and women when you married my mother?

  Wang Chi-Yang : Nothing. That is why I obeyed my father and married the woman he chose for me.