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Soursweet (1988)
Directed by Mike Newell
Overview
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.
Length 110 minutes
Actors
Sylvia Chang | Danny Dun | Jodi Long | Speedy Choo | Han Tan | Soon-Tek Oh | William Chow | Chin Shih-Chieh | David Tse | Jim Carter | Philip Tan | Eddie Yeoh | Fung Lam | Chua Kah Joo | Nigel Fan | Ron Flanagan | Mark Monero | David Forman | Tom Wu | Lex van Delden | Mary Ten-Pow | Kim Teoh | Robert Burbage | Lucy Hancock | Ozzie Yue | Craig Fairbrass | Leesa Williams | Gary Gordon | Sarah James | Ng Man Biu | Ho Kam | May Lan Tan | Chindy Lau | Bowie Lam | Man Sau