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#1 Serial Killer is officially out! Get your DVDs! You can also watch it in on iTunes  (https://goo.gl/afol2A) and other places you can buy/rent movies!

Check out the #1 Serial Killer Trailer.

 

 

Join us for a DVD Signing & Release Events: https://www.facebook.com/events/1634281563461184/1634645160091491/

#1 SERIAL KILLER
DVD and VOD Release Party
June 27 and 28, 2015

May 28, 2015: #1 SERIAL KILLER, distributed by Indican Pictures, premieres on DVD and Video-On-Demand on June 23, 2015. To celebrate, the producers and director are hosting two release parties on Saturday, June 27, from 2:00pm to 4:00pmat the horror specialty retail store Dark Delicacies (Twitter @darkdel) located at 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505, as well as,Sunday, June 28, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm, at specialty video store Cinefile Video (Twitter @cinefilevideo) located at 11280 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025. The director, producer and cast members will be present to sign DVD’s and give away posters, scripts, and other prizes.

Eddy is sick – sick of people ignoring him, sick of being picked on, sick of being Asian. He has internalized the racism he felt his entire life until a new traumatic experience threatens to bring everything to a boil. Looking for an outlet to discharge this seething rage, feeling more and more of a kinship with his hero, the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, Eddy decides to become the greatest serial killer in history.

#1 SERIAL KILLER is a slasher movie with a message that confronts race, sexuality and gender head on. Will Eddy kill the blonde coworker he has a crush on? Will he get revenge against his abusive parents? What about the boss that he despises? And finally, will he kill the only woman he’s ever loved?

During its film festival run, #1 SERIAL KILLER won Best Thriller Feature at the Burbank International Film Festival and Best Actor at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

A provocative feature directed by Stanley Yung (2 Bedroom 1 Bath) from the screenwriter of The People I’ve Slept With Koji Steven Sakai, #1 SERIAL KILLER will take you to unforgettable and frightening places like a bloody rollercoaster ride. The film stars Jason Tobin (Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Eugenia Yuan (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2, The Eye 2) as Eddy’s love interest, and Tzi Ma (Rush Hour, The Quiet American) as Eddy’s antagonistic boss. Rane Jameson plays Eddy’s best friend, Shoshana Bush is his nemesis at work, and Kenzie Dalton is the object of his obsession.

Please join us for the home video release of this unforgettable movie.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Delicacies/182525775099921
http://www.cinefilevideo.com/

Check out the article about my book over on Discover Nikkei:

 

http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2015/6/3/koji-steven-sakai/

Check out my newest article over on 8Asians.com

An excerpt from the article…

I admit it, I’m a popaholic and I’m proud. Not sure what that is? It’s a person who loves watching videos of pimples, cysts, blackheads. The bigger, the better. For a long
long long time, I never told anyone. I mean, once in a while, it slipped out. I’d show my wife a video that I liked. Her disgusted face was enough to reinforce that I shouldn’t share my love/fascination with anyone else. My wife is legally obligated to love me. Everyone else, not so much.

Read the whole article here: http://www.8asians.com/2015/05/12/8questions-with-dr-sandra-lee-aka-dr-pimple-popper/

I’ve spent my last five years working on Hello! The Sueprcute World of Hello Kitty. I consider myself a Hello Kitty expert. See it before it leaves at the end of the month — only three weeks away. If you come when I’m at the museum (and I’m not in a meeting or busy) I’d be happy to walk you through.

Here is more information about the show:

The Japanese American National Museum presents Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, the first large-scale Hello Kitty museum retrospective in the United States.

Organized as part of the global icon’s 40th-anniversary celebrations, the exhibition examines the colorful history of Hello Kitty and her influence on popular culture. Hello! includes an extensive product survey, with rare and unique items from the Sanrio archives, alongside a selection of innovative contemporary artworks inspired by Hello Kitty and her world.

Hello! is curated by Christine Yano, PhD, author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, and Jamie Rivadeneira, founder and owner of the Los Angeles pop culture boutique JapanLA.

Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty is a specially ticketed exhibition.

We have a lot of great public programs, including a Hello Kitty closing party, as well. You can check them out here: http://www.janm.org/exhibits/hellokitty/events/

Check out this great article over on Screen Nut about my newest film #1 Serial Killer.

http://www.screennut.com/supportindiefilm/category/all-new-deadly-aspirations-in-stanley-yungs-1-serial-killer

I’m super excited about this as well. The FIRST Asian American movie… and it was made in 1916. We’ll be screening it at the Japanese American National Museum on May 13 at 7 pm.

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, JANM presents a rare screening of The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West(1916–17), a silent black-and-white film directed by Marion Wong.

The Curse of Quon Gwon is the earliest known film directed by an Asian American, and one of the earliest directed by a woman. Reflecting the filmmaker’s desire to present authentic Chinese culture to a Western audience, the movie features an all-Chinese cast and Chinese-style interior décor. The melodramatic storyline, which is typical of Western films from that era, is filled with romance and intrigue.

The evening will include a talk with Mai-Lon Gittelsohn and Dr. Greg Mark, descendants of star Violet Wong, and filmmaker Arthur Dong, who facilitated the restoration of the only known remaining portions of the historic film by the Academy Film Archive.

Pre-sale: $8 JANM and Visual Communications members, $10 general.
At the door (if available): $12 JANM and VC members, $15 general.

You can get your tickets here.

Super duper excited about this FREE EVENT at JANM… My heroes, the Mountain Brothers, will be here for a program on May 14. I still remember back in the day when Deep Watters passed me their CD and said these guys were Asian. It totally blew my mind. Did I mention this event is free?

Get your free ticket here

Check out the article on #1 Serial Killer over on Fangoria.

Can there be only one? A put-upon young man thinks so when he vows to be the #1 SERIAL KILLER in a new Asian-American production. We’ve got the first word on the release, plus an exclusive first look at the poster and the trailer to show you. Indican Pictures gave Fango the scoop that it […]