"[ONE OF] OUR 20 FAVORITE FILMS FROM SUNDANCE 07... not only charming, it's also amazing to look at...."
- AOL Moviephone.com
"Doyer Street has never looked so poetically sun-dappled... the piquancy of a fresh slice of ginger... the thing glows...."
- Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
"Sundance 07 was one of the best... [one of] the festival's most memorable films..."
- Don Marshall, Deseret Morning News
"FOUR STARS... [the director] finds the sweet spot where 'Year of the Fish' is able to be mature and 'real' enough to play to an adult audience while not losing track of the simple, hopeful idea that makes this story work in the first place...."
- Jay Seavor, efilmcritic.com
"Superb .. wonderfully acted and scripted...."
- Michael Chen, San Diego Film Foundation
"The logline for this first feature by writer-director David Kaplan says, "Cinderella set in a Chinatown massage parlor," and he's not kidding. Even more surprisingly, it works."
- Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News
"Painterly and lyrical."
- Cynthia Wisehart, Digital Content Producer
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YEAR OF THE FISH is a rotoscoped/animated independent feature film written and directed by David Kaplan, based on a ninth century Chinese variant of the fairy tale Cinderella, set in a massage parlor in modern-day New York's Chinatown.
This offbeat love story stars acclaimed actress Tsai Chin (THE JOY LUCK CLUB), Randall Duk Kim (MATRIX RELOADED), Ken Leung (RUSH HOUR), and introduces An Nguyen as the lovely Ye Xian. It is narrated by a magical carp.
The film was executive produced by Janet Yang (THE JOY LUCK CLUB) and produced by Rocco Caruso (JUDY BERLIN). Kaplan's screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and was the recipient of a 2005 Annenberg Fellowship. YEAR OF THE FISH had its world premiere as an Official Selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
The film was shot entirely on location in New York City's Chinatown using live actors and then animated in post-production via "rotoscoping" - the process of tracing over live-action footage to create an animation; in this case, a painterly, flowing, watercolor effect.
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