Dragon Boys
| Dragon Boys | |
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CBC Mini-Series
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| Written by | Ian Weir |
| Directed by | Jerry Ciccoritti |
| Starring |
Byron Mann Eric Tsang Lawrence Chou Tzi Ma Lauren Lee Smith Steph Song Darryl Quon Christina Ma Jean Yoon Simon Wong Chang Tseng |
| Theme music composer | Tim McCauley |
| Country of origin | Canada Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Khmer |
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| Producer(s) | Michael Chechik Howard Dancyger Ian Weir |
| Cinematography | Danny Nowak |
| Editor(s) | Jane Morrison |
| Running time | 240 minutes |
| Distributor | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Budget | $4,000,000 CAD |
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Dragon Boys (Chinese: 龍在他鄉) is a CBC Television (CBC) miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng. It aired on CBC on January 7 and 8 of 2007.
The film focuses on several stories about Asian Canadian organized gangs, set mostly in Vancouver and Richmond, British Columbia,Canada. One of them involves an Asian-Canadian Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer, Tommy Jiang (played by Mann), who is seeking to bring down two Asian gangsters named Willie the Duck and Movie Star (played by Tsang and Chou, respectively), in the process risking losing everything, including his marriage, as he goes deeper into the criminal organization. Eventually, the final showdown occurs between Movie Star and Jiang.
Another story focuses on the Wahs, an immigrant family from China. The parents in that family (played by real life husband and wife Tzi Ma and Christina Ma) are concerned about their son Jason (played by Wong), who is constantly the victim of racial bullying. Jason soon receives help, but from a Chinese-Canadian youth with gang connections. They attempt a robbery but fail, and Jason is forced to flee for his life while his father Henry tries to save him.
The third story is about an illegal Cambodian immigrant named Chavy Pahn (Steph Song) who comes to Vancouver to seek a modelling career but is instead trapped in Canada with no friends, no passport and a $30,000 debt. Forced into prostitution at a senior gang member's wife's massage parlour because she cannot pay her debts, she seeks the help of a gang-enforcer (Quon), who befriends her, as means of escape.
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