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The Friends of Kwan Ming

Christine Amber Tang · Canada · Family / Myth / Animation · 7 min · 5.9K views

Directed by Christine Amber Tang · 2002

Kwan Ming leaves China for the New World and gives his friends the best jobs, taking a lowly post with a mean storekeeper, until an impossible task tests their friendship.

A warm, colourful immigrant folktale showing kids that generosity and true friendship come back around.

This animated short tells the story of Kwan Ming, a man who left China to live and work in the New World. Once at destination, Kwan Ming and three traveling companions look for work but find nothing. When opportunities f

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