MOVIE_DATABASE
ILLUSTRIOUS ENERGY
1988 RATING: 8.5
SYNOPSIS.TXT
Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.
CAST_AND_CREW
Shaun Bao
Chan
Yip Ha-Lei
Kim
Peter Chin
Wong
Desmond Kelly
Surveyor
