Shadow of China (1990)

Directed by

Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 11m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese immigrant in New York gets caught up in a criminal underworld after a failed business deal. She tries to escape her past but her connections to a smuggling network drag her deeper into danger.

tensemelancholicatmosphericslow-burnunsettlingbleakcerebraldarkly dramatic

What happens

Shadow of China is a 1989 drama film directed and co-written by Mitsuo Yanagimachi and starring John Lone, Sammi Davis and Vivian Wu. It is based on the novel Snake Head by Masaaki Nishiki. It was the first Japanese-American co-production financed entirely in Japan, and the first English-language film by director Yanagimachi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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