Xinhin[citation needed] or Heartaches) is a 1936 Cantonese-language drama film produced by an American production company in 1936 for a Chinese audience.
[4] A Chinese-American aviator (Beal Wong) falls in love with an opera star named Fan (Kim-Fong Wei) in San Francisco.
[5] Unfortunately, a jealous theater manager named Jung intervenes, threatening to send the opera star back to China.
[2] Together, they managed to raise the money they'd need to get the film made, and then they set to work studying the taste of Chinese audiences.
The film was shot in eight days[6] in Los Angeles and San Francisco under Bruce Wong's Cathay Pictures production company.