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Synopsis: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS follows two immigrant brothers Sonny (Justin Chon) and Steven (Kevin Wu) who survive the impoverished despair of New York in the 1980s by joining Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons". The brothers quickly rise up the ranks, drawing the unwanted attention of hard-boiled city cops. After an ill- fated love affair pits Sonny against his own brother, he sets out for revenge on the very gang who made him who he is.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Production: A24 and DIRECTV
 
IMDB:
5.3
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
R
Year:
2014
94 min
Website
219 Views


This is a great man.

Teddy Sham had a hit single in Hong Kong

before bringing his family to America.

His son, Ricky, was Paul's best friend.

He was killed one night when

he and Paul were out drinking.

Ever since, Dragons kept an eye

on Tina, Teddy's daughter.

For Paul it was a matter of saving face.

For the rest of the Dragons,

Teddy and Tina were the relatives

who came for the weekend,

but were still sleeping on

the sofa a month later.

Hey, Bobo.

So you came here with your dad?

Eight years ago, yeah.

You must get a kick listening

to your father sing.

Look, Sonny, I should go.

Hey, hey, hey!

Whatever you think I am, you're wrong.

What do you want, Sonny?

You want to be my boyfriend?

Let me tell you something.

I don't date Green Dragons.

It must be hard living a lie,

pretending to be who you

are just so you can fit in.

Have a good night.

Dai Lo! Dai Lo! White Tigers!

Steven!

Steven! Steven! Steven!

Stay awake! Steven!

Open your eyes! Open your eyes!

Open your eyes!

Open your eyes! Steven!

Open your eyes! Stay with me.

You did good tonight.

From now on,

you're in charge of collections.

I'm not your brother.

Speak English, motherf***er.

Look, I just wanna see

you guys stay alive, okay?

Pathetic.

Let me guess, you heard nothing,

saw nothing.

But your friend is in there with

eight bullets in his chest.

Help me out, little brother.

Go f*** yourself, big brother.

If you think of anything, call me.

Hey.

You know, Big Nose

going to be all right.

How do you know that?

You probably don't know this, but

I can read someone's future

by looking at their face.

Can I?

Our entire life is

mapped out in the eyes,

the nose, but most

importantly the mouth.

It tells how your life will end.

You have a beautiful mouth, Sonny.

Lies do not come easily for you.

If you live past this year,

you'll live a long life.

Authorities say a Venezuelan trawler

ran aground tonight in

the Long Island Sound

in an apparent attempt to smuggle dozens

of Chinese men, women and

children into the country.

Once the ship was

marooned on the sandbar,

many were left to swim for their lives.

I think we tell the families

it was an act of God.

We could've made a fortune today.

Winning at mahjong doesn't

mean winning every hand.

How many Chinese are there, Paul,

waiting to get here. A billion?

Now this, Sam, this is different.

They ran the f***ing boat

right up onto the beach.

Don't you get it? They're like rats.

You let one in, you get 10.

The next month, that 10 turns into 100!

Yeah, no, I will.

You all right?

I was nine when my mother died.

I can still remember her eyes.

She was so scared.

They fished me out,

gave me to another family.

It's a risk, bringing people to America.

It takes 20 men to get one of you here.

Still, only three in five make it alive.

So why do they do it?

Why do I do it?

'Cause they pay you, what...

Ten grand?

Thirty.

Look, a dishwasher here

works like a slave.

But he has hope. He can

dream of something better.

A fisherman in China,

he'll never be anything

but a fisherman in China.

Listen, little brother.

I know how you feel.

Please, Dai Lo, let me have my revenge.

You'll get your revenge.

You want back at the White Tigers?

Yes, Dai Lo.

Then obey me.

Always, Dai Lo.

You take eight bullets and live.

More than any Dragon ever!

I swear to you on my honor,

you get revenge you deserve.

On the streets,

you learn to protect what's yours.

There were always the back and forths,

the eye for an eye.

When the White Tigers shot up our place,

they were looking for trouble.

We were more than happy

to return the favor.

Let's rock 'n' roll!

It's a trap, motherf***er!

Let's go!

You ain't sh*t, I Chung.

You Dragons ain't sh*t.

We Tigers wipe our asses

with you pieces of sh*t.

- That's right, b*tch!

- Can't believe this motherf***er!

You beat him like a dog,

he's still talking sh*t!

Dai Lo.

Look at his mouth.

Get up!

Open up!

Dai Lo! Flashing the bird, Dai Lo.

That's right.

Motherf***er flashed me the bird.

Don't move! Don't move!

Don't f***ing move. Don't f***ing move.

Don't f***ing move.

Look who's flashing the

bird now, motherf***er!

You touch your woman

with this f***ing claw?

No respect for the p*ssy.

You better kill me...

'Cause if I live, you're dead.

All of you, f***ing dead.

What did you say?

What the f*** did you say?

See you, motherf***er, in the next life.

You Tang?

Boyer, your new partner.

Who did you piss off?

White Tiger.

Looks like our guy flipped off

the wrong people.

You work the Gang Unit?

No, but I know these guys.

Now, you touched him already, right?

How long have you been a detective?

Two weeks. You?

Almost six months.

They assign this to two detectives

and not even a year's worth

of experience between us.

- So, what about it?

- So...

I've seen missing dogs get

more attention than this guy.

'Cause he's Asian.

What? Tang? Did I say something wrong?

I hear your boys have been

playing a little rough lately.

I have no boys. I'm a businessman.

You look familiar.

Have we ever known each other?

Yeah. You and your boys used

to beat the life out of me.

Look at this.

Can't be good for business.

Do you know what

bo ying means, Detective?

What goes around comes around.

Bringing me in,

middle of the night,

is disrespectful.

How the hell you eat with those

damn things is beyond me.

You know, they're coming, Sam.

Whether you want to believe it or not.

In case you forgot, let me

remind you, we're the FBI.

We don't investigate tourists

who overstay their visas.

You assume whoever

comes here is a saint.

Remember the Irish?

They put every convicted criminal

they had on a boat to Ellis Island.

There's guys in Flushing right now,

illegal aliens,

and they're building empires.

And just like the Jews and the

Irish or the Italians before them,

you and everybody else doesn't think

that there's an immigration problem.

And there is, and it's about

to become a crime problem.

You listen to yourself?

If you wanna investigate a couple of

delivery boys, you go right ahead.

But don't do it on government time.

You are dead wrong about this.

Sure I am.

How was your trip, uncle?

Exhilarating.

Listen, tomorrow I want

you to come with me.

We're gonna pay a visit to Ah Tai.

White Tiger Ah Tai?

I've known him longer than

you've been alive, Sonny.

He used to walk my sister to

school, carried her backpack.

When was the last time you were home?

Me?

Five, six years.

You wanna go next week?

Bring me back some mooncakes?

I'll buy you the ticket.

I can't. I got Thursday nights.

You can find someone for that.

Right, Sonny?

Yes.

It's Hong Kong.

You tell me what I got to do,

Dai Lo, and it's done.

Good man.

I'll have Sonny arrange everything.

Since when can't an old

friend bring you mooncakes?

Might be an old bastard,

but there's not a lot I don't remember.

- What do you mean?

- Your sister.

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Fredric Dannen

Fredric Dannen is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his landmark book Hit Men: Powerbrokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business (1990), which investigated the behind-the-scenes dealings of the major American record labels in the 1970s and 1980s, focussing on the careers of leading CBS Records executives Walter Yetnikoff and Dick Asher. Hit Men came in second on Billboard_(magazine) list of "100 Greatest Music Books of All Time"More recently, Dannen was the co-author (with Barry Long) of Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East, in which Dannen examines the connections between the Hong Kong film industry and Asian organised crime.Dannen was a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and in 1986 he was co-recipient of the Overseas Press Club's, Morton Frank Award for business reporting from abroad. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Channels, Barron's and Rolling Stone. The Martin Scorsese-produced movie Revenge of the Green Dragons was based on Frederick Dannen’s New Yorker article chronicling Asian-American gang life in Queens, New York. more…

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