Thousand Pieces of Gold is a 1991 Western film starring Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Dennis Dun and Michael Paul Chan, and is directed by Nancy Kelly.

The following night, when Hong King tries to sell her virtue to the highest bidder, Lalu violently refuses to submit to her would-be suitors and successfully avoids becoming a prostitute, thanks in part to the intervention of a kind stranger, Charlie Bemis, who turns out to be Hong King's Caucasian partner.

She placates a furious Hong King and convinces him to allow her to be his servant and saloon maid in order to repay the cost of her purchase.

Hong King agrees to let her buy her freedom for the impossible sum of a thousand pieces of gold.

Polly works in many jobs and saves money to go back to China and her family, but ultimately ends up falling in love with Charlie.

The consensus summarizes: "Thousand Pieces of Gold's technical deficiencies are handily outweighed by sterling work from a 24-karat cast -- and a story that has a fresh perspective on the American Old West.