Thousand Pieces of Gold Movie Review 1991

A young Chinese woman is sold by her father to a marriage broker, but instead of a respectable marriage she is shipped to America and expected to work as a prostitute in an Idaho mining town. Instead she works taking in laundry as she tries to make her way in a man's world, finding a sweet romance of opposites along the way. Based on a true story. Excellent performances by Chao and Cooper.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 105 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Westerns, True Stories, Oldest Profession

Screenplay

Anne Makepeace

Cast

Rosalind Chao, Dennis Dun, Michael Paul Chan, Chris Cooper, Jimmie F. Skaggs, William Oldham, David Hayward, Beth Broderick

Cinematography

Bobby Bukowski

Director

Nancy Kelly

Music

Gary Remal Malkin

Producer

Nancy Kelly, Kenji Yamamoto