About Esther Eng
Esther Eng was an American film director and the first female director to direct Chinese-language films in the United States. Eng made four feature films in America, and five in Hong Kong. She was recognized as a female pioneer who crossed the boundaries of race, language, culture and gender. This was the first of her five Manhattan restaurants which included the Esther Eng Restaurant that opened in 1959. When Eng was 19, her father and his business partners created a film production company with Eng as a producer. Esther's first screen credit was as co-producer on the film Heartache (1936). Eng supported him and managed his stage career in the United States, and later named a restaurant she co-founded as "Bo Bo".
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