A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations
- Louis Bukowski
- (as Ray Barry)
- Fred Hung
- (as Pao Han Lin)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
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- TriviaTracy's apartment was not a set. In order to get the desired view though the windows, it was specially constructed at the top of the famed Clocktower Building in New York. Cimino says in the commentary track how proud he is to be the first (and likely only) director to get that view of the New York skyline. "I can't stand going to a place and shooting it the way everyone's shot it before. People go to Paris, there's always the Eiffel Tower. They come to New York and it's The Plaza Hotel and Central Park. So I wanted a view of the city which would be unique and memorable."
- GoofsThe first time Stanley is shown on screen his hair is gray and white all over. The next time Stanley is shown in the police station his hair is brown with gray only visible on his temples. In other scenes of the film his hair changes color from gray/white to brown with graying at the temples.
- Quotes
Stanley White: The first time I saw you, I hated your guts. I think I even hated you before I met you. I hated you on TV. I hated you in Vietnam. You want to know what's destroying this country? It's not booze. It's not drugs. It's TV. It's media. It's people like you. It's vampires. I hate the way you make your living sticking microphones in people's faces. You lie every night at 6:00. I hate the way you kill real feelings. I hate everything that you stand for. Most of all, I hate rich kids and I hate this place. So why do I want to fuck you so bad?
- Crazy creditsThe end credits roll over a image of the Chinese woman restaurant-singer crooning a Chinese easy-listening ditty.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Slaying the Dragon (1988)
- SoundtracksDream Dance (Tian Mi Mi)
Composed by Lucia Hwong
Performed and arranged by Yukio Tsuji and Lucia Hwong
Recording engineering by Gene Ricciardi (as Gene Ricardi)
Action-packed movie with brilliant photography , well-done action scenes with maximum violence and entertainment enough. Cimino's heroes have always been insufferably self-righteous and captain Stanley is no exception , as he conducts a clean-up campaign on N. Y. Chinatown which amounts to declared warfare . Here there's a racist hero you don't want to root for , a murky storyline with a headstrong cop unmercilessly battling the Tongs , and a semi-efective filming , all of them are the highlights of this tour through the black market's underbelly hierarchy . His feud is conducted with extreme violence , savage relentlessness and disregard for official procedural , in fact our starring finds himself fighting his own police force , his wife : Caroline Kava , his girlfriend : Ariane , as much as the local Triads led by Victor Wong and John Lone . Once again Cimino's ability to handle furious action set pieces is well paced such as a crossfire in a Chinese restaurant and a battle with two pistol-packing Chinese punkettes put him in the Peckinpah class .The connecting material ; however, resulting to be disjoined , muddled , boring and crass , amounting mostly to Stanley's interminable shots and a deep self-justification. The cast is acceptable with great main and support actors . Mickey Rourke provides overacting as Polish police captain Stanley White of the NYPD who vows to neautralize the crime lords running New York's Chinatown. Being finely accompanied by John Lone , Ariane, Victor Wong , Raymond J. Barry , Caroline Kava, Dennis Dun and Eddie Jones.
It contains colorful and adequate cinematography by Alex Thomson , though the exterior frames of New York City were actually sets built in North Carolina, that's why the settings proved realistic enough to fool audience . As well as thrilling and atmospheric musical score with Oriental sounds by composer David Arnold . The motion picture lavishly produced by Dino de Laurentiis was professionally written/directed by Michael Cimino. This filmmaker was a good craftsman who made few but very nice films with successes and flops, such as : Heaven's Gate , Year of the Dragon, The Sicilian , Desperate Hours , The Sunchaser and , of course , his biggest hit : The Deer Hunter . Rating : 6/10 . The flick will appeal to Mickey Rourke fans and Michael Cimino followers.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Godina zmaja
- Filming locations
- 1 Main St #16, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(Tracy Tzu's apartment)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $24,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $18,707,466
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,093,079
- Aug 18, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $18,707,466
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- 2.35 : 1