the Jim Goddard / Madonna / Sean Penn movie
Tagline: A romantic adventure for the dangerous at heart.
Plot outline:
In 1937, Walter Faraday (Freeman), the Opium King, was one step ahead of the Japanese army invading Shanghai. He had over 1100 pounds of opium to maintain his lifestyle. But because of circumstances and double-crosses too complicated to go into, the opium disappeared and has never resurfaced. One year later, Mr. Burns (Michael Aldridge) and Miss Gloria Tatlock (Madonna), administrators of a charity hospital, are looking for the flowers to use as painkillers for their suffering patients. They recruit Glendon Wasey (Penn) to help them out because of his fluent Chinese and his shady character, since they have to deal with some pretty shady characters in search of the Flowers. They run into baseball-loving gangsters, Imperial concubines, sadistic police, and enough double crosses to kill a vampire at fifty paces. [source: needcoffee.com]
Directed by
Jim Goddard
Cast:
Sean Penn | .... | Glendon Wasey | |
Madonna | .... | Gloria Tatlock | |
Paul Freeman | .... | Walter Faraday | |
Richard Griffiths | .... | Willie Tuttle | |
Philip Sayer | .... | Justin Kronk | |
Clyde Kusatsu | .... | Joe Go | |
Kay Tong Lim | .... | Mei Gan | |
Sonserai Lee | .... | China Doll | |
Victor Wong | .... | Ho Chong | |
Professor Toru Tanaka | .... | Yamagani San | |
Michael Aldridge | .... | Mr. Burns | |
Sarah Lam | .... | China Doll's maid | |
George She | .... | Wu Ch'En She | |
Won Gam Bor | .... | Rickshaw King | |
To Chee Kan | .... | China Doll's Boatman | |
David Li | .... | Doorman at Zig-Zag Club | |
Keith Bonnard | .... | Maitre d' at Zig-Zag Club | |
Claire Lutter | .... | Prostitute | |
Pamela Yang | .... | Prostitute | |
Michael Chow | .... | Street Barker | |
Samuel Tsao | .... | Street Barker | |
Philip Tan | .... | Ship's Officer | |
George Harrison | .... | Night Club Singer |