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Movie title: does this story sound familiar to you?

Movie title: does this story sound familiar to you?

Sometime in the last few years, I saw a movie somewhere and no matter how hard I try, I have been unsuccessful in searching for the title. Maybe you saw it and can provide a title for me.

It was about a young musician in China who enjoyed ITM so much he decided to visit Ireland, but first he began to teach himself Gaelic, thinking that's what everyone in Ireland speaks.

He finally arrives in Dublin and discovers that no one can understand him, except for one man from Clare who directs the Chinese boy there, where he plays sessions and gets along well, or something like that.

Sound familiar?

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner

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Look for "My name is Yu Ming"

Its a great short. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410939/

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by I_Fel

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Watchable online here: http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/name_yu_ming/

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Björn

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Hey, thanks Greg for asking and Björn for finding.
I'd been looking for this movie too.
Cheers!

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Fanning

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I remember that film! I like the conspicuous closeup of the pint toward the end. Talk about promoting tourism...

:: drool ::

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by gravelwalks

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Is Mise Yu Ming
Memorable line:
Barman - "Jaysus, I didn't know oul Paddy could speak Chinese!"

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by iwerzon

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I LMAO when he said that. I don't recall the Yu Ming listening or playing ITM though. I added the video to my MySpace page.
Good stuff!

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by Fishmonger

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Great stuff!

The end song is The Lark in the Morning?

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by whangee

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Really nice little film, thanks for pointing it out.

It is, of course, the music that draws Yu Ming to Ireland, but that is one of the things that is left implicit in a 12 minute film!

# Posted on October 20th 2008 by TomB-R

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Damnit, It's not The Lark in the Morning it's the Humours of Glendart... I always get those two mixed up, they go well together.

# Posted on October 21st 2008 by whangee

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Lovely little film, and many thanks to all concerned for bringing it here. It's just over 13 minutes long and downloads quicker than the running time as a 52MB AVI file which plays well on Windows Media Player 11. Firefox seems to be the best downloader for this one.

# Posted on October 21st 2008 by lazyhound

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Well, thanks for all the help! Now I have it bookmarked.

# Posted on October 21st 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner

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BTW, Firefox thinks it's a FLV file when it downloads, so just change the extension to AVI.

# Posted on October 21st 2008 by lazyhound

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