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Soursweet (1988)
Directed by Mike Newell
Drama, Crime · 1h 50m
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.
Cast
Sylvia Chang Ai-chia
Jodi Long
Soon-Tek Oh
King Shih-chieh
Jim Carter
Philip Tan
Eddie Yeoh
Crew
- Director
- Mike Newell
- Writer
- Ian McEwan
- Novel
- Timothy Mo
- Director of Photography
- Michael Garfath
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Hartley
- Editor
- Mick Audsley
- Producer
- Roger Randall-Cutler
Details
- Release date
- 1988-05-15
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- First Film Company, British Screen Productions, Film Four International