The Soft Shelled Crab and the Metal Claw
Dir. by Joseph Accardi
USA
15 min
2014
The Soft Shell Crab and the Metal Claw follows Wei Tang, a Chinese woman in her mid twenties, who finds herself enslaved by the bonds of marriage to an abusive husband, the owner of a fish market in New York City's Chinatown. Trapped in this foreign reproduction of her homeland, Wei Tang is forced to endure a grueling workday of gutting fish as well as the physical torment brought upon her by her husband. However, after years of enduring this life, Wei Tang has hatched a plan to escape. Will Wei Tang get away, or, like the crabs and fish she sells, are there just some traps from which we cannot break free?
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Credits
- acted_in
- Alessandra Adina , Philip Chang , Braulio Lin , Jin Kim , Youngen Chang , Lanna Wang , Ying Ying Li , Vincent Veloso , Mason Carter , Stan Vidal
- directed
- Joseph Accardi
- edited
- John Accardi
- exec_produced
- Alexander Hawthorne
- participated_in
- Jin Kim , Joseph Accardi
- produced
- Dylan Marcus Shane , Ivy Yu
- screenwrote
- John Accardi
- shot
- Cullie Poseria
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