Dennis Dun

When his friend's fiancé is kidnapped, truck driver Jack Burton embarks upon an unlikely adventure beneath the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. It seems that the fiancé, green-eyed Gracie Law, has been taken by 2,000-year-old wizard Lo Pan, who needs to marry a woman with green eyes if he is to regain his physical form.

In the basement of an abandoned church lies a bottle of green liquid being investigated by local physics students. But as the night draws in, the students soon realise that the relic holds a dark force beyond their control that could well be the essence of pure evil: the remains of Satan himself.

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Nancy Kelly's feminist Western "Thousand Pieces of Gold" won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman who fought for independence and freedom in the Wild West after her desperately poor parents sold her into slavery.

Discover the story of Pu Yi, the three-year-old boy who became emperor of China in 1908. Living in the spectacular Forbidden City, Pu Yi grows up in sumptuous surroundings amid reverent treatment. Later deposed, the last emperor becomes a western-style playboy and then Japan's puppet emperor of Manchuria.