| Title: | Soursweet | |
| Director 1: | Mike Newell | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1988 | |
| length: | 105 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Ian McEwan | |
| Cinematographer: | Michael Garfath | |
| Editor: | Mick Audsley | |
| Producer: | Roger Randall-Cutler, Paul Cowan | |
| Production company: | British Screen and Zenith/ Film Four International | |
| Cast: | Sylvia Chang, Danny An-Ning Dun, Jodi Long | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 69 | |
| Synopsis: | "Soursweet" is a melodrama about a Chinese couple trying to succeed in the harsh realities of Margaret Thatcher's England. The two protagonists, Lily and Chen, leave Hong Kong to begin a new life together in the West - in London's Chinatown. After having raised enough money to start his own business, Chen is caught up in a violent feud between rival Chinese gangs. Based on the novel of the same title by Timothy Mo. | |
| Keyword 1: | literature | |
| Keyword 2: | adaptation | |
| Keyword 3: | 1980s | |
| Keyword 4: | crime | |
| Keyword 5: | violence | |
| Keyword 6: | family | |
| Keyword 7: | Chinese | |
| Keyword 8: | Hong Kong | |
| Keyword 9: | London | |
| Keyword 10: | migration | |
| Keyword 11: | workplace | |
| Keyword 12: | Thatcher | |
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