Thousand Pieces of Gold
- Original title
- Thousand Pieces of Gold
- Year
- 1991
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Anne Makepeace. Novel: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Cast
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- Rosalind Chao
- Chris Cooper
- Michael Paul Chan
- Dennis Dun
- Jimmie F. Skaggs
- Will Oldham
- David Hayward
- Beth Broderick
- Kim Chan
- Chris Evans
- Weili Fan
- Evan C. Kim
- Freda Foh Shen
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United States-United Kingdom;
- Genre
- Romance
- Synopsis
- In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons
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