Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
Kenji Yamamoto Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly/
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この映画は実際の話を基にしたもので、中国系女性がアメリカで奮闘した物語である。１９世紀にアメリカでは奴隷が廃止になったが、アジア人は未だ奴隷のように扱われていた。この物語の主人公Laluは中国で生まれたが父親にアメリカで売られた。彼女は売春婦にされそうになったが抵抗した。この映画はそのような悲惨な現状を伝えているだけではなく、Charlieとのロマンスも伝えている。
For some measure of the progress of women, consider "1000 Pieces of Gold," set in the 19th century and telling the story of a Chinese woman sold from man to man as if she were property. The film is based on the little-known fact that years after slavery was abolished in America, Asians were still held in involuntary servitude - sometimes by their own people. Inspired by true stories, the movie is angry and impassioned, but it is also, somewhat surprisingly, a romance. Rosalind Chao, an actress of great character and presence, stars as a young woman named Lalu, born in China where girl babies were not highly valued, and sold by her father to a Chinese "wife-trader" (Dennis Dun). He brings her to America and sells her as a wife to Hong King (Michael Paul Chan), another Chinese man, who runs a saloon in a dismal backwater settlement in Idaho, and plans to use her as a prostitute. Lalu reacts to his plans violently, with a knife, refusing to prostitute herself, and Hong King wisely observes that she does not seem cut out for the profession.
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