Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

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An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spell...

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An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key t...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

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The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen...

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fell...

In this 1993 Hong Kong film, a boathand (Aaron Kwok) falls in love with a supermodel (Rosamund Kwan)...

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on bot...

Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary ma...

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being acc...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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