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Astonishing Little Feet

Maegan Houang · USA · Horror · 9 min · 8.6K views

Directed by Maegan Houang · Starring Celia Au, Perry Yung, Robert Brettenaugh, Max Faugno · 2023

In 1830s New York, sixteen-year-old Afong Moy, newly arrived from China, realises the men who brought her intend to profit from the spectacle of her bound feet.

A gripping, horror-tinged reimagining of a forgotten chapter of Asian American history and the commodification of a young woman.

Afong Moy, the first documented Chinese woman to come to the United States, realizes the men who separated her from her family want to profit off the peculiarities of her bound feet

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