Shadow of China (1990)
A sweeping epic of one's man ascent to power... and his fall from grace.
A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.
- Date of release
- 1990-05-12
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Casting
- John Lone — Henry
- Vivian Wu — Moo-Ling
- Sammi Davis — Katherine
- Koichi Sato — Akira
- Sam Neill — TV Reporter
- Dennis Chan Kwok-San — Mr. Wu
- Gam Biu
- Kenneth Tsang — Mr. Lau
- Roy Chiao — Lee Hok Chow
- Junko Takazawa — Phantom Mother
- Simon Yam — Po Kok
- Roland Harrah III — Xiao Niu
Interesting facts
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.
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