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VHS : Shadow of China

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starring: John Lone, Koichi Sato, Sammi Davis, Vivian Wu, Roland Harrah III directed by: Mitsuo Yanagimachi See Larger Image Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303697215 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6303697216 Label: New Line Home Video Manufacturer: New Line Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Release Date: June 13, 1997 Running Time: 131 minutes Sales Rank: 22830 Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Related Items: Year of the Dragon The Last Emperor - Director's Cut Black Book The Other Side of Midnight James Clavell's Noble House see more Editorial Review: Description: During political upheavals in China, a young radical flees to Hong Kong, where he becomes a successful businessman. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Great Story Potential, Amateurishly Executed 'Shadow of China' has so much going for it: a multi-layered story involving mainland China and Hong Kong; the protagonist fleeing China and moving up in the world, yet still saddled with a dark past; the imminent take-over from the British....pity it is so amateurishly executed. John Lone and Vivian Wu are attractive leads, but the scripting and direction are poor, to say the least. The clumsy dialogue is played with lines delivered as if chiseled in stone, and there are ... Read More Rating: - A Hidden Gem of an Enigmatic Movie. I saw this film many years ago, rented only on a whim and it has haunted me ever since. It is not a film so much as a real work of art. Its characters, backdrops, contrasts, and poetic artistry of writing and filmography make me sad that it has not received more commercial acclaim yet I have great satisfaction of having it as one of my secret discoveries. I watch this film over and over again and have shown it to friends and it always touches off many emotions and stirs alot of discussion. All ... Read More Rating: - I like it I can say it purely and simply .... I love this film.... I really and truly Love it. Rating: - A Justified Cult Following - Fantastic Film This film is a nearly unknown gem. It successfully captures the exotic feeling of Hong Kong, with its fortune tellers, ancient trees and ultramodern highrises, all set against the hum of commerce. John Lone plays the protagonist, a former member of the Red Guard who illegally enters Hong Kong (with only the clothes on his body) after Mao's death. The film then shifts to a time several years later, during the 1989 student demonstrations, and people are forced to consider what the coming 1997 takeover ... Read More Rating: - A man of success looks back on his own humble roots. It is a pure artistic film. It is filmed in the heights of Asian economies. A man of success in every single facet of the material world looks back on his own humble roots with mixed feelings. Instead of saying "who am I???" in verbatim, the whole film depicts life as a "dream-like-state" in pictorial. This is a story about city mid-aged crisis: a self-exploration of his self in the past versus the present success and wealth of his responsibility -- and also, the compromise and non-compromise of ... Read More see more

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