Year of The Dragon (Imprint #24)
It isn't the Bronx or Brooklyn. It isn't even New York. It's Chinatown…and it's about to explode.
Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan’s Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there’s police captain Stanley White’s way. Mickey Rourke portrays White, a war veteran who has a Vietnam-sized chip on his shoulder when dealing with an emerging blood feud in Chinatown.
John Lone plays the crime lord standing in the line of fire of White’s relentless campaign. And Academy Award®-winning director Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot), working from a screenplay based on the novel by Robert Daley (Prince of the City) and co-scripted by Oliver Stone, fills the screen with adrenaline rushes of action and excitement.
Special Features
- Audio commentary by Director Michael Cimino (2005)
- Audio Commentary by Film Critic Peter Tonguette (2020)
- “Prince of The City: Talking triads, cops & New York's mean streets with author Robert Daley” (2020)
- “From Heaven To Chinatown: David Mansfield on Michael Cimino” Interview with Composer David Mansfield (2020)
- Theatrical Trailer
Critic Reviews:
- " The bottom line: Year of the Dragon is a first-rate cops vs the mob melodrama that restores Michael Cimino's reputation as a gifted filmmaker. " – Bob Thomas
- " A stunning, hard-edged crime thriller from Michael Cimino with a mesmerizing lead performance by Mickey Rourke. An incredibly gutsy effort that's my favorite film of 1985. " – Chuck O'Leary
- " Fascinating " – Rob Gonsalves