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Original title

Soursweet

Year

1988

Running time

110 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Mike Newell

Screenwriter

Ian McEwan. Novel: Timothy Mo

Cast

Music

Richard Hartley

Cinematography

Michael Garfath

Producer

First Film Company

Genre

Drama | Yakuza & Triad

Synopsis

Lily and Chen move from Hong Kong to London to make their fortune.
Enterprising Lily runs her own restaurant but she fails to persuade Chen who prefers the security of a job as a waiter in London’s Chinatown.
Soho which forms the backdrop of much of the action, is Britain’s nerve centre for the Chinese Mafia – the Triads. In the back streets and illicit gambling dens, the film gives a rare insight to the Machiavellian exchanges between rival Triad gangs. Trying to pay off his father’s gambling debts; the innocent Chen accepts money from a Triad member, only to find that he is expected to pay for it by doing a heroin run.
Terrified, he falls in with Lily’s plan to move away and start up a business.
However back in Soho a high ranking Triad member is planning to overthrow his leader, and Chen’s unpaid debt could turn him into a pawn in a horrifying violent power struggle.

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Soursweet

1988

Mike Newell