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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 31, 2005
Running Time
2 hours, 14 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Studio MGM, United Artists
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Other Titles
• Year of the Dragon (1985)
• Im Jahr des Drachen (1985)
• Manhattan Massaker (1985)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Police, Suspense, Thieves, Prostitution, Infidelity, Drugs, Gangsters, Cult Classic, Murder, Detectives
Plot: A crime epic set in New York's Chinatown, YEAR OF THE DRAGON is full of mayhem, murder, and camouflaged vengeance. Explosive and confrontational, the film is based on the novel by Robert Daley and follows a script written by Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino. When a prominent businessman-mob leader in Chinatown is assassinated by a member of a Chinese youth gang, Vietnam vet and highly decorated cop Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is assigned to Chinatown and ordered to clean up the gang problem. White soon realizes that the teenage hoodlums are under the control of an ambitious young crime boss, Joey Tai (John Lone). Enlisting the help of pretty young Chinese-American television reporter Tracy Tzu (Ariane), White becomes obsessed with destroying Tai. Prone to breaking rules and unlikely to make compromises, White goes after his target, vowing to spare nothing and nobody, including himself. The film is graphic in its depiction of gang violence and received a lot of criticism for it upon its release.
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| Directed by |
Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Heaven's Gate |
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| Written by |
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 | Robert Daley
Night Falls on Manhattan, Prince of the City, Hands of a Stranger |
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| Cast |
Mickey Rourke
Man on Fire, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Pledge |
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 | Jack Kehler
The Big Lebowski, Men in Black II, Waterworld |
 | John Lone
Rush Hour 2, The Last Emperor, The Shadow | Ariane
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules | Leonard Termo
Ed Wood, Nowhere to Run, The Pope of Greenwich Village | Caroline Kava
Born on the Fourth of July, Snow Falling on Cedars, Four Days in September | |
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| Music By |
David Mansfield
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Apostle, Transamerica |
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