Tai-Pan (film)
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Tai-Pan is a 1986 film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on the 1966 James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan. While many of the same characters and settings appear, Clavell's masterful epic story was muddled and drowned in this Dino De Laurentiis cinematic version. Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, much of Clavell's story was considered too offensive to be filmed as written and considerable changes were made. The results faired poorly at the box office and in critical reviews. Director Daryl Duke believed that a mini-series a la Shogun would have been a far superior means of covering the complexity of Clavell's novel.
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- Bryan Brown - Dirk Struan
- Joan Chen - May-May
- John Stanton - Tyler Brock
- Tim Guinee - Culum Struan
- Bill Leadbitter - Gorth Brock
- Russell Wong - Gordon Chen
- Katy Behean - Mary Sinclair
- Kyra Sedgwick - Tess Brock
- Janine Turner - Shevaun Tillman
- Norman Rodway - Aristotle Quance
- John Bennett - Orlov
- Derrick Branche - Vargas
- Vic Armstrong - Drunken sailor
- Dickey Beer - Brecks's crew
- Cheng Chuang
- Chen Shu
- Rosemarie Dunham
- Robert Easton
- Richard Foo
- Nicholas Gecks
- Carol Gillies
- Pat Gorman - British merchant 2
- Michael C. Gwynne
- Billy Horrigan - Brecks's crew
- Denise Kellogg - Nude model
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