iF Rating: 8/13

Director: Michael Cimino

Runtime: 134 min

Certification: (18)

Sub-Genre: Action | Drama

Title: Year of the Dragon

Release Date: 16 August 1985

Writer: Robert Daley

Copyrights: MGM | Sanctuary

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Info: Using unprecedented degrees of violence, young Joey Tai becomes the head of Chinese mafia in New York and undisputed leader of the Chinese community. Stanley White, the most decorated cop in New York, who hates Asian people since his service in Vietnam, is put in charge of Chinatown. Both men are prone to breaking long-established rules and both men are unlikely to make compromises with each other, which leads to unavoidable and bloody conflict.