The Yellow Man

Cheng Huan, better known as The Yellow Man is the male protagonist of the 1919 silent film Broken Blossoms. He's a young Chinese Buddhist who falls to opium after failing to achieve his mission to spread the Buddha message, and forms a bond with the abused Lucy Burrows.
He was portrayed by the late Richard Barthelmess.
== Biography ==
Cheng Huan/The Yellow Man is a Chinese Buddhist acolyte who one day considered a mission to England intending to spread a message of Buddha and peace to the Anglo-Saxons. 
He'd make it to the Chinese marketplace, where he finds two American sailors arguing with each other. Stepping between them, he preaches the non-violent Golden Rule from Buddha, bringing them the peace of his Eastern religious beliefs, but the sailors ignore him and just fight more severely, knocking him down. He then journeys to London's Limehouse section, a foggy waterfront district.
An unspecified amount of time passes, and Huan would open a curio shop, and eventually become a drug addict after becoming disillusioned due to his failed spiritual mission. His dreams had been shattered.
Later that day, two Anglican clergymen would discuss a mission to China for the younger minister to "convert the heathen", and The Yellow Man would be handed a booklet entitled "Hell."
The Yellow Man would additionally spent some of his days watching over the abused daughter of a brutish boxer, Lucy Barrows, whenever she passed or paused in front of the Yellow Man's shop window, as he found Lucy to be his only joy and beauty in life. This particular time, one of the play dolls in the shop window catches Lucy's eye, and the Yellow Man would follow her across the street, hoping to get a closer glimpse of her. Neither were aware that Evil Eye was watching nearby.
Evil Eye makes advances toward Lucy, but the Yellow Man breaks up their contact by stepping between them, caring enough to protect her fragility.
After getting yelled at, and beaten by her abusive father yet again, Lucy barely manages to stumble and topple into Yellow Man's shop for refuge, as she collapses shortly afterwards. The Yellow Man would take Lucy in, providing her with kindness and warmth her father never provided: tenderly daubing Lucy's wounded arm with a wet cloth, treating her with care, carrying her upstairs to his cramped room where he lives over the shop, making his room a temple for her while nursing her back to health, and giving her Chinese silks. She'd look in a hand-held mirror, and smile naturally, rather than forced with her hands.
The Yellow Man regaining his sense of mission, believing it was to comfort Lucy and ensure she was happy. He'd even give her the shop window doll that she admired, which for her becomes a surrogate for the grateful love she cannot direct toward the Yellow Man. Unfortunately, Lucy's spotted in the shop by the Spying One -- a close friend of Battling Burrows -- who would inform him of what Lucy's whereabouts and how she was hanging out with the Yellow Man.
The Yellow Man would temporarily leave his shop to buy Lucy some flowers, only for her father Battling Burrows to enter the shop to reclaim Lucy, and the tear off some of her silky clothes In a rage and have her change back into her rags. He also destroys the Yellow Man's upstairs shrine by smashing most of the furniture, and completely vandalizing the place, demanding to know where the Yellow Man was, and dragging Lucy home. The Yellow Man would discover the destruction, and show fear for Lucy's safety, and head for Lucy's home with a gun.
Unfortunately, by the time he arrives at the Burrows residence, Lucy had already been beaten to death by her dad. So then he confronts, faces Burrows, and kills him by shooting him multiple times. He'd stand by Lucy's bedside assemble more icons from their love: a bouquet of flowers that he had bought for her (but never been able to deliver), burning incense, an altar, and a small temple bell. He'd then commit suicide by stabbing himself in the chest with a knife.
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