Shadow of China is a 1989 drama film directed and co-written by Mitsuo Yanagimachi and starring John Lone, Sammi Davis and Vivian Wu.
[1][2] It is based on the novel Snake Head by Masaaki Nishiki.
[3] It was the first Japanese-American co-production financed entirely in Japan, and the first English-language film by director Yanagimachi.
A Chinese political refugee tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong, while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.
His past comes back to haunt him.