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1988 / 110min.

Rating5.3

Genres

Drama

Crime

Synopsis

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen works long days in a restaurant, while Lily does the housekeeping, daydreaming of setting up their own business, much to Chen's chagrin. When Chen lets his colleague Fok seduce him down a path of mounting gambling debts, he is recruited as a drug courier for a shadowy Chinese triad. Suddenly he realizes that getting their own enterprise could be their only means of escape.

Directors

Mike Newell

Actors

Jim Carter

Tom Wu

Bowie Lam Bo-Yee

David Forman

Lucy Hancock

Soon-Tek Oh

Sylvia Chang

Chua Kah Joo

David K.S. Tse

King Shih-Chieh

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