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I am De Quincey.
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I dream and I create dreams.
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Out of the opium pipe,
I see sailing into our vision a Junk.
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It's cargo, women.
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Women bought or stolen
from all over the mysterious orient.
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Their destination and mine...
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the humans auction in Chinatown.
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In the year 1802, Thomas De
Quincey, without money or friends...
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came to London in search of,
well, what every man searches for.
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And every man calls it by a different name.
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For some it is a castle in
Spain or a mountain to conquer.
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For others, an image in a cloud of
smoke or a dream found in a bottle.
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Some 100 years later I, Gilbert De Quincey
came to San Francisco on my search.
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The Chinese have a saying...
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If a man can for
one day realize his true self...
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he will have found for always his
place in the scheme of things.
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But what does a man find when he
has no self to realize, no place to go?
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Unless perhaps he'd be
to keep a predestined rendezvous.
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New town battle against
human auctions, read Al about it.
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Lady, take that child away from here, this
robe ain't going give you no protection.
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Move on, now all of you.
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No dragons banners for the
Tong war's faction or hell break through.
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- Come on folks, move out.
- Alright, alright.
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Move on.
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Nobody gets in Chinatown today.
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Town open the war, new
town attack against human auctions.
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A man's character is known by his faults.
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That morning I could almost
hear the click of an abacus.
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Is some old Chinese
grand-daddy, toted up my scope.
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Good health to you.
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- Let the sun warm your way.
- You are interested in antiques?
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In a must unusual one.
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- The Moon Serpent.
- Ah, you know it's name.
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I've lived with it from time to time.
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We share an experience.
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Mr. De Quincey.
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- Honorable Ching Foon?
- Yes.
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You are to report to Ruby Low,
She will give you Ling Tan orders.
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- A woman?
- Ruby Low is a must beautiful woman.
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You go through back door,
and you'll see just her house.
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Ruby Law is there...
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she mourns at a funeral of
a Chinese editor who was killed, George Wah.
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Thought George Wah was your enemy.
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The more we approach our enemies,
the more they think of us as lambs.
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I'll join the lamb.
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There is a devil in the
drunken and a ghost in the poet.
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Devil and drunker ghost to poet was I.
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But once to every man
there comes a premonition of destiny.
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In that first instance of her
image passing the lenses of my eyes...
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I felt that I was hanging
in the immensity of space.
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And she was floating with me, chained,
locked inextricably together, arms, brains...
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heart pulsations, unable to
flee, unable to break apart, sinking...
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sinking through the
inexhaustible depths of time.
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I forgot the long journey by the sea,
I forgot the pain, I forgot my mission.
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Was it the heavy,
drifting perfume of the incense...
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or some feverish fantasy searing my brain?
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Whatever it was, as
I looked at her for a heartbeat...
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I I knew whoever she
was, whatever she might be...
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this woman had to be a kind of fate for me.
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I'm not sing-song girl to light cigarettes.
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Sorry, I got carried away.
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You're late, it is
already the hour of the goat.
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- Thanks I matter.
- Ling Tang is very angry.
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Confucius says a superior man blame
himself the inferior man blames others.
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And I'm must inferior so
I decided to wear my shirt.
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It's your shirt? Chain mail.
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Made in Peking by Chen Hao.
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Very soft and very comforting
since that no knife can penetrate it.
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- Now, when do I get to see Ling Tan?
- Never.
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No one has looked up on his face in a decade.
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I carry his orders.
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The message from Hong Kong
said you're anxious for job.
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Yeah, I was flat-broke in the Empress Road.
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Somebody started peaking out bar ships...
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in the Peninsula Hotel
as if they're gone out of style.
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Two or three bottles later,
give it to a half dozen I'm here.
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Perhaps you go back,
if you have cost of passage.
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I couldn't afford a round trip ticket
on a two nickels Merry-go-round.
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Your friend in the coffin might say...
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There is no poison in the green snake mouth..
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As in a woman heart.
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Chinatown has turned away from Ling Tan.
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Three of the Tongs have
declared against our sale of brides.
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They have stolen the price
girls of our last shipment.
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Once more the Tongs brace war,
they are fanatics, madmen, causing trouble.
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He cause trouble?
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And was killed, Ling Tan wants you to
take care of the trouble rioters.
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Like you did for
honorable Chi Fong in Peking.
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You know, it's funny, he
hasn't not fanatics or mad...
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Sometimes is very hard to tell who is mad...
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and who is not.
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- Who was it?
- George Wah.
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Editor of Chinatown Gazette.
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He led Chinese Tongs
and try to stop our auctions.
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We tell him 1,000 Chinese
men for every Chinese woman.
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We tell him Chinese men need wife.
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George Wah not listen.
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What do I do if I want to get a
message to revered ancestor?
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Send message here, to George house.
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On the principle that there
not secrets from heaven.
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No from Ling Tan Same thing in Chinatown.
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Not quite, I'd say you have a secret.
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Me?
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- It's only from yourself.
- I'm not western woman.
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I was born on Bamboo on river near Shu Chao.
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I've need to wear false face.
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Tell you I think you wear more faces than
there are scars in a gutter after the rain.
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It's been a long since
I see myself in gutter.
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You have a guilt here and now, I dare say.
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Still I think maybe I
like you better the other way.
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Perhaps you will find out.
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But remember, when the dragons
banner fall and the Tong war begin...
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sometimes both men and happens...
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find their life reflections together...
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in those gutters.
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Naked we are born and
naked we leave the world.
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It is only the curse,
the eternal fugitives...
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who go all their days
separated from their fellows...
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naked in spirit from first to last.
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Such lonely cast was I.
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Man himself is not immortal but some men
lives their lives as if time was endless.
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This was the room of a man who believe.
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A man who walk in eternity.
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Know he was dead, I envied.
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You must be quiet child.
Grief would not bring back the dead.
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- We have no time for tears.
- Don't leave me.
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I mustn't, you must
stay here only little while.
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I must find new place for you.
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- They will kill me.
- Beat you perhaps, kill you no.
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You bring much opium at auction.
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Is like old days when Ling Tan
bring girls from all of the middle...
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kingdom for emperor to see and choose wife.
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Ling Tan, then great man.
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Now he's very old,
not know old custom is very bad.
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Be very quiet, I'll
come for you at hour of rat.
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When auction begin,
then all too busy to be searched.
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Why not stop auction?
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We've tried, we stop
auctions at many other places.
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But evil like weed,
pick it up here and grow there.
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What is this evil?
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Here the evil is Ling Tan, a cancer which
grows on healthy fabrics until all is rotten.
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- Does no one tried stop Lin Tang then?
- We've done all that men of peace can do.
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George Wah, he took the law into
his own doing and was killed for it.
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I'm afraid.
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When one's fortune is written...
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all the water from all rivers in
the world can not wash away the ink.
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What is there for me?
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In this footy world my child...
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what is there for everyone but for each
to fallow the way it is appointed?
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- No, no...
- I'm not going to hurt you.
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Bad man, bad man, after me.
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- No Tong please.
- How you get in?
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- Taken me from mission.
- Mission? What mission?
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- Hang Ahn.
- China?
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I was playing on mission yard, all
of the sudden two men come grab me.
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I never see them before,
I'll never see mission again.
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Put me on board with a bunch of girls.
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Me tried run away when stop island,
they beat me bamboo so feet swell.
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No can't grant.
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And they said they get much
opium when sell me auction.
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- How old are you?
- 17.
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Oh, life I dreamed read about America.
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Mission school learn English,
someday come here and be a bride.
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Meet man like George Wah.
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Now, now I'm here
sequestered and George Wah dead.
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No one stop Ling Tan, no one stop auction.
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Where good men? It's only bad men now.
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Men's view of good and
evil is like waiting in a box.
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Open a passage to the East and we flow
east, open to the West and we flow west.
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You come take me auction?
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Auction is hour of the rat. Midnight
is too late for a little girl like you.
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You help me? You good man?
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I not know how to thank you.
I feel in my heart much...
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Now hold your thanks until we
find out where this thing take us.
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I very frighten.
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A journey of a thousand
miles begins with the first step.
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Who knows? Maybe we're going to arrive where
we were meant to go since the beginning.
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Don't want take a round trip
on this thing, let's go.
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Who are you?
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Well, I'm not a side of
beef in a butcher shop.
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Not so sure if you're
side of beef or side of man.
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Look like you man of many faces.
Saw Ling Tan Tattoo on wrist.
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Then observe tsing tsao, could
not make up what flag you carry,
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The Honorable Ching Foon, eh?
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Does we always put labels on everything?
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Can just we say that I'm only
a student of Chinese philosophy...
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seeking the appointed way?
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And where appointed way?
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Path of righteousness lies around us...
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for the eyes that will see
and the foot that will follow.
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You speaks words of truth.
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George Wah long expected one he
knew in war who speaks the true.
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But you're late.
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Already give me the
password, what more you want?
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You have password for
Ruby Low too, Ruby Low very smart.
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Very easy for Ruby Low to bring
man here, play double game.
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As you should know.
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George Wah say you
run guns in China, he liked you.
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But I'm not sure you honest man.
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That's what makes horse racing.
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- Besides there was a question of a debt.
- George tell me.
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Still, maybe you not want
to help now since George gone.
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Tong war, very bad trouble.
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And Ruby Low Ruby
know how to make man do her good.
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00:33:49,972 --> 00:33:52,262
Maybe George wasn't
the only reason I came here.
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Yes, Ling Tan makes great
fortune, girls bring much opium.
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Smart man like you, play
right side, he can make much money.
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- Does George plays smart man?
- George fights long time to stop auction.
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He say, we stop this auction tonight,
we end all auctions in Chinatown.
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00:34:16,448 --> 00:34:21,147
But George dead
and we have so very little time.
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Maybe you're the one who
should find out whether you're a...
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- side of beef or a side of man.
- So you think I should trust you?
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What can you do by midnight?
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Work both ways, why should I trust you?
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Upstairs totting to the little girl
seems to be a girl best friend.
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But down here in your Halloween,
get up and over there were shot.
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- You're a different cup of tea.
- Do not be confused my friend.
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Good and evil often walks the same
road, hand in hand in the same person.
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Perhaps we should end the philosophy
lesson, eh? And let me get about my business.
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- Where is the old man?
- What old man?
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Kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me...
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Hungry, hungry...
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00:35:57,939 --> 00:36:00,051
You like my Tsing-Tsong song mister?
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Came from Peking and
know all ways make happy.
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00:36:05,060 --> 00:36:05,856
Who are you?
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Most beautiful Tsing-Tsong girl of Chinatown.
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Hungry...
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- Food, food...
- She crazy.
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She got here last week.
You let her out? Key, there.
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- What happened to her?
- Look out.
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Make much trouble for Ling Tan.
She tell about girls come on ship.
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- You let out please.
- Why did they put you in this thing?
233
00:36:57,314 --> 00:37:00,494
I very bad girl, always
run away from my husband.
234
00:37:00,681 --> 00:37:03,731
Kept bore marriage, like change.
235
00:37:13,602 --> 00:37:18,122
Men always crazy for me,
pretty Chinese little teddy bear.
236
00:37:18,158 --> 00:37:20,994
Dancing, play lute, paint watercolors.
237
00:37:21,695 --> 00:37:24,342
I bring 1,000 dollars once.
238
00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:27,935
For a little girl you
certainly have pipe dreams.
239
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,071
You're no child.
240
00:37:33,195 --> 00:37:37,099
Lin Tang buy me himself, all go hate me.
241
00:37:37,374 --> 00:37:39,190
You know the old man in person?
242
00:37:39,691 --> 00:37:46,181
One summer he called me Baby Doll, but he
old man, he say I too young for his wife.
243
00:37:46,286 --> 00:37:52,148
So he sell me way way to lettuce farmer in
Salinas, cut cabbage there long time.
244
00:37:52,179 --> 00:37:56,641
- How old is Ling Tan now?
- Maybe 100, very old man.
245
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,030
And what's wrong with her?
246
00:38:02,138 --> 00:38:06,468
No sense of humor, cry
all time, make husband unhappy.
247
00:38:07,149 --> 00:38:08,490
Where you come from?
248
00:38:09,852 --> 00:38:12,071
I kidnapped from family,
249
00:38:12,673 --> 00:38:17,989
- 5, 6 years ago.
- This girl lie, father sell this girl.
250
00:38:18,916 --> 00:38:23,757
- Why do they put you in these cages?
- When wife dead, husband can marry again.
251
00:38:24,095 --> 00:38:28,544
- You mean they're going to kill you?
- They no kill us, just put our food.
252
00:38:28,586 --> 00:38:32,360
If they kill, then our
ghosts could haunt always.
253
00:38:33,068 --> 00:38:37,849
It's not nice to have a ghost
haunt to wake up night screaming.
254
00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:41,742
So, they just let us die, all by selves.
255
00:38:41,773 --> 00:38:48,180
Then there is no ghost for husband, he
can then sleep nice all night, but no wife.
256
00:38:48,548 --> 00:38:52,084
Sometime, which may
change wife every 3, 4 years.
257
00:38:54,532 --> 00:38:58,946
Look Girl next to dye, very sick now.
258
00:38:59,496 --> 00:39:03,246
No live long, end here.
259
00:39:06,551 --> 00:39:08,770
You very nice man.
260
00:39:08,989 --> 00:39:12,240
Want see most beautiful
girls in Chinatown mister?
261
00:39:12,568 --> 00:39:17,432
Get ready, big auction
sell all pretty girl, come on.
262
00:39:44,223 --> 00:39:47,355
- This how we started.
- How do I get in that room?
263
00:39:47,394 --> 00:39:51,179
Ah, you know girl? You no get there.
264
00:39:51,211 --> 00:39:54,948
She belong Ling Tan now,
flower of a thousand delights.
265
00:39:55,178 --> 00:39:57,575
At hour of rat, sell all girls.
266
00:39:59,915 --> 00:40:00,983
Show me the way.
267
00:40:01,024 --> 00:40:06,554
You no want go there, danger.
You want die death of the 1000 cuts?
268
00:40:06,585 --> 00:40:08,223
I'll have to find it myself.
269
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:13,432
- If I take you, what you give me?
- Your life.
270
00:40:14,718 --> 00:40:20,235
My life? No good,
what else you have to offer?
271
00:40:20,908 --> 00:40:24,135
If I take you to auction room,
you help us to get away, yes?
272
00:40:24,598 --> 00:40:27,600
- I no want to die here.
- I not want to die there.
273
00:40:28,056 --> 00:40:30,749
I know way to take you,
we go through bath house.
274
00:40:30,856 --> 00:40:34,392
Mongols will sharp swords, shop us to pieces.
275
00:40:34,752 --> 00:40:38,252
We die already, many times.
276
00:41:06,622 --> 00:41:11,250
New girls must wash before sell,
if you want steal girl from auction...
277
00:41:11,424 --> 00:41:13,157
you got to go through there,
278
00:41:14,045 --> 00:41:16,525
Auction room beyond door there.
279
00:41:16,634 --> 00:41:19,281
Where there men out with swords.
280
00:41:19,321 --> 00:41:24,340
You not get through in one piece,
maybe in two pieces but no good.
281
00:41:24,535 --> 00:41:26,517
I know how, I'll show the way.
282
00:41:27,065 --> 00:41:32,784
You may fight with old woman
there too smoke, difficult to see, go.
283
00:45:01,483 --> 00:45:04,710
- What you want?
- I, I want a pipe.
284
00:45:04,745 --> 00:45:07,047
You crazy, no pipe this place.
285
00:45:07,472 --> 00:45:10,214
- Who tell you to find pipe this place?
- And what are those guys doing?
286
00:45:10,218 --> 00:45:11,168
Doing soap bubbles?
287
00:45:11,718 --> 00:45:16,583
It's choice trap, all funny, they
smoke fine variety, it's only tobacco.
288
00:45:19,147 --> 00:45:20,713
Why you this place?
289
00:45:21,575 --> 00:45:24,138
- I want to smoke.
- No opium here.
290
00:45:25,121 --> 00:45:29,392
- Then why is that smell?
- Incense we burn incense.
291
00:45:37,536 --> 00:45:39,150
You go bunk, I'll bring.
292
00:45:52,487 --> 00:45:58,004
- You buying dreams tonight mate?
- That stuff buys nightmares.
293
00:46:06,498 --> 00:46:09,121
Could you spend me a nightmare?
294
00:46:21,328 --> 00:46:22,882
You always free loading pipe.
295
00:46:22,923 --> 00:46:26,340
You want smoke pipe
so bad mister? You smoke pipe.
296
00:46:30,977 --> 00:46:31,891
You like?
297
00:46:35,473 --> 00:46:37,668
It's about as irresistible as you are.
298
00:46:41,411 --> 00:46:44,995
- It's good mate?
- It's no good mate.
299
00:46:45,105 --> 00:46:48,119
Will you tell me if not drug what man?
300
00:46:50,475 --> 00:46:51,769
For the auction.
301
00:46:51,952 --> 00:46:54,800
No white man get to that auction man.
302
00:46:56,053 --> 00:46:58,510
How much time until they sell the wives?
303
00:46:59,979 --> 00:47:05,222
What you want to care for mate?
When you got a pipe and dreams.
304
00:47:13,653 --> 00:47:17,924
You feel it man, you feel it?
305
00:47:21,606 --> 00:47:24,797
Don't fought the pipe, don't fought it.
306
00:47:25,087 --> 00:47:28,861
You got to beat the join.
It's the hour of the dog.
307
00:47:29,948 --> 00:47:36,047
What you need is, is a rest, a dream.
308
00:48:21,147 --> 00:48:27,388
When the dreams of the dark idle, monstrous
phenomena move forever forward...
309
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:35,190
wild, barbarous, capricious
into the great yawning darkness...
310
00:48:35,582 --> 00:48:39,794
to be fixed for centuries in secret rooms.
311
00:48:39,830 --> 00:48:45,110
De Quincey the idol,
De Quincey the pagan priest.
312
00:48:45,148 --> 00:48:49,882
To be worshiped, to be sacrificed.
313
00:48:51,548 --> 00:48:56,709
What is a dream and what is reality?
314
00:48:57,629 --> 00:49:03,027
Sometimes a man's life can be a nightmare,
other times, cannot a nightmare be life?
315
00:49:03,452 --> 00:49:04,900
This voices I heard,
316
00:49:05,013 --> 00:49:09,961
were they the voices of men or some
strange imitation of men in some strange...
317
00:49:09,972 --> 00:49:12,393
writhing jungle of my imagination?
318
00:49:12,429 --> 00:49:15,728
Was this opium or was it reality?
319
00:49:16,367 --> 00:49:22,027
Was I dead? Or I was I
only beginning to live?
320
00:51:44,127 --> 00:51:49,774
I snipe the wrath of Brahma
through the forest of the Asia...
321
00:51:50,413 --> 00:51:55,930
hated by Vishnu
knowing Shiva can lay and wait...
322
00:51:56,248 --> 00:52:03,521
buried for 1000 years with all
un-adorable slimy things.
323
00:54:21,535 --> 00:54:24,917
Help, help...
324
00:54:27,652 --> 00:54:31,022
Help, help...
325
00:54:37,767 --> 00:54:40,912
Help, help...
326
00:55:33,029 --> 00:55:37,110
You very clever man but no clever enough.
327
00:55:41,924 --> 00:55:45,330
- Sorry to disappoint you.
- Not disappointed.
328
00:55:45,752 --> 00:55:50,130
After long I'd be flower
and willow garden, I know the men.
329
00:55:50,341 --> 00:55:53,663
- Men all alike.
- All except George.
330
00:55:53,694 --> 00:55:59,484
George, was my enemy, you really like George.
331
00:55:59,727 --> 00:56:04,936
Very thin line separates love
and hate, enemies can become lovers.
332
00:56:05,465 --> 00:56:08,254
George Wah said that to me once.
333
00:56:09,441 --> 00:56:14,424
But what is love? The
hunger of one body for another body.
334
00:56:14,812 --> 00:56:17,102
That all a man means to you?
335
00:56:18,267 --> 00:56:20,995
There is all a woman ever means to a man.
336
00:56:21,629 --> 00:56:27,312
For a woman like Ruby Low,
a man might try to be almost anything.
337
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,520
I snap my fingers on any
man I want and is mine.
338
00:56:31,735 --> 00:56:36,410
Snapping of the fingers
didn't work on George, did it?
339
00:56:37,105 --> 00:56:38,731
So you had him killed.
340
00:56:38,978 --> 00:56:42,051
George kill himself, he was a fool.
341
00:56:42,496 --> 00:56:46,317
Because whatever war
I wanted him, he think I am weak.
342
00:56:54,173 --> 00:56:58,232
You think I trade all this? For anyone man?
343
00:56:59,904 --> 00:57:03,310
You think I will risk losing
Ling Tan priceless treasures?
344
00:57:08,910 --> 00:57:13,075
Emeralds from the Forbidden City,
Jewels of the Ming dynasty...
345
00:57:13,115 --> 00:57:19,131
and gold, death weapon of an emperor,
Opium paid for in blood of human lives.
346
00:57:19,171 --> 00:57:23,609
This is power, riches. I can buy
an army when I go back to China.
347
00:57:23,647 --> 00:57:26,115
Me, born on a Tso-Tao bamboo boat.
348
00:57:26,561 --> 00:57:30,975
I will rule over a province,
I will speak at the foot of the Emperor.
349
00:57:31,691 --> 00:57:36,758
- Quite a little dynasty you're building.
- Who let your foot on the beach?
350
00:57:38,260 --> 00:57:41,061
What can a man like know of empire?
351
00:57:42,278 --> 00:57:43,702
Of dynasty?
352
00:57:44,735 --> 00:57:51,000
You have no believe, no dreams
no realities, you have nothing.
353
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:55,081
For you have a destiny is path to gutter.
354
00:57:55,438 --> 00:57:59,709
For me, my destiny is destiny of China.
355
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,955
You fascinate me Ruby.
356
00:58:03,398 --> 00:58:06,958
This auction and
these girls you're selling...
357
00:58:07,631 --> 00:58:12,555
Is this for China's destiny or your destiny?
358
00:58:15,005 --> 00:58:17,699
George Wah said that to me once.
359
00:58:18,758 --> 00:58:23,183
After we had swum in the forbidden waters.
360
00:58:26,545 --> 00:58:30,875
But why we talk about George? George is dead.
361
00:58:33,021 --> 00:58:34,695
We alive.
362
00:58:37,226 --> 00:58:41,497
It is not many times in life...
363
00:58:42,965 --> 00:58:45,539
a man and a woman hear the call...
364
00:58:46,398 --> 00:58:48,676
of have their eternities together.
365
00:58:50,390 --> 00:58:54,887
It is no many times in one life...
366
00:58:56,286 --> 00:58:57,722
a man and a woman...
367
00:58:58,603 --> 00:59:03,100
found the other half of themselves.
368
00:59:05,991 --> 00:59:08,340
When I see you for first time...
369
00:59:10,059 --> 00:59:14,734
I felt as if long ago...
370
00:59:17,624 --> 00:59:21,753
whispered the wind together...
371
00:59:24,035 --> 00:59:28,911
and the moon shone on us...
372
00:59:31,148 --> 00:59:36,226
on you and me.
373
01:00:13,430 --> 01:00:17,334
You now in Hall of benevolent hours with me.
374
01:00:19,421 --> 01:00:22,268
How many benevolent hours have I been here?
375
01:00:22,495 --> 01:00:24,358
Is now hour of rat.
376
01:00:36,990 --> 01:00:39,921
Is wake up now? Have good dream?
377
01:00:41,425 --> 01:00:43,502
Have lousy dream.
378
01:00:47,995 --> 01:00:51,032
After auction you no
have bad dreams, you have...
379
01:00:51,064 --> 01:00:55,157
I know, I have died.
380
01:00:56,303 --> 01:01:02,674
You foolish man, death come
to all man, but come foolish man sooner.
381
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:05,611
Ok.
382
01:01:07,290 --> 01:01:09,782
When is the last train for eternity call out?
383
01:01:09,818 --> 01:01:15,145
Soon, no one, it's a express train, non stop.
384
01:01:22,829 --> 01:01:26,163
See, already have
pretty girl friend wait for you.
385
01:01:40,312 --> 01:01:44,821
Soon after all girl sell, we
send you a pretty long journey.
386
01:01:45,210 --> 01:01:47,013
Maybe one, two from now.
387
01:01:49,856 --> 01:01:53,463
- You like to see pretty girl sale?
- No let me keep you.
388
01:01:53,888 --> 01:01:56,712
Go and over and take a
good look, I don't mind waiting.
389
01:01:58,082 --> 01:02:01,190
You funny man, no go no place.
390
01:02:01,716 --> 01:02:02,974
Can watch here.
391
01:02:12,351 --> 01:02:14,356
Maybe see girlfriend, eh?
392
01:02:14,548 --> 01:02:19,187
Gentleman an other Tong
brothers, you have worship beauty.
393
01:02:19,833 --> 01:02:22,598
You have look to
find it in the celestial East.
394
01:02:23,002 --> 01:02:26,668
Consider tonight that
you have been transported there.
395
01:02:27,903 --> 01:02:30,715
Here, gather from
every corner of the orient...
396
01:02:30,988 --> 01:02:33,740
awaiting your honorable estime attention...
397
01:02:34,010 --> 01:02:38,603
is the most exquisite merchandise
men's eyes have ever seen.
398
01:02:38,841 --> 01:02:40,859
The great Kublai Khan himself...
399
01:02:40,896 --> 01:02:44,598
whose warriors rode three continents
in search of beauties for their master...
400
01:02:44,636 --> 01:02:47,068
could've made not more delicious choice...
401
01:02:47,214 --> 01:02:51,438
than this flower of Burma, blended
with the springs of South China...
402
01:02:51,642 --> 01:02:55,640
which beauty of this
exotic flower is unforgettable.
403
01:04:05,425 --> 01:04:09,198
Hey captor, these boys are
spreading her at cheer rice?
404
01:04:09,724 --> 01:04:13,473
Full rice bowl, no put in an empty woman.
405
01:05:52,115 --> 01:05:53,100
One head.
406
01:05:53,131 --> 01:05:55,600
- Two head.
- Look at those voices in fact.
407
01:05:56,201 --> 01:05:58,753
What did they got that you don't captor?
408
01:05:59,516 --> 01:06:04,001
You know you ought to be in there.
Sitting on those velvet cushions,
409
01:06:04,561 --> 01:06:08,939
Eating that preserved
ginger, checking the stoke.
410
01:06:10,323 --> 01:06:11,295
Get the key.
411
01:06:31,908 --> 01:06:34,614
When our junk when to Tahiti for water...
412
01:06:35,058 --> 01:06:40,041
this enchanting Polynesian
blossom was brought for your delight.
413
01:08:50,805 --> 01:08:54,341
I'm be soon, I'm afraid.
414
01:09:12,091 --> 01:09:14,642
- One head.
- Two heads.
415
01:09:14,859 --> 01:09:17,067
- Three heads.
- Three and a half head.
416
01:09:17,181 --> 01:09:19,281
- Four head.
- Five head.
417
01:09:19,318 --> 01:09:20,386
Six heads.
418
01:09:35,072 --> 01:09:39,522
Now we offer an item,
spirit as a young coup at spring.
419
01:09:39,730 --> 01:09:42,258
Exquisite in her fire and desirability.
420
01:09:42,592 --> 01:09:46,235
A challenge to the man
of taste and discrimination.
421
01:09:46,351 --> 01:09:49,401
Here is the final beauty,
worth 5 heads to any man.
422
01:09:49,594 --> 01:09:51,576
- One head.
- Two heads.
423
01:09:51,776 --> 01:09:53,259
For loveliness and fire?
424
01:09:53,299 --> 01:09:57,298
It is a priceless combination,
I should hear four heads at least.
425
01:10:02,412 --> 01:10:07,479
Only old men have that kind of money,
and only young men can tame here.
426
01:10:07,515 --> 01:10:10,126
- Make her dance.
- Make her dance.
427
01:10:10,235 --> 01:10:12,323
We won't bid unless she dance.
428
01:10:14,099 --> 01:10:17,493
We won't bid unless she dance.
429
01:10:17,535 --> 01:10:22,637
- Let her dance.
- Let her dance.
430
01:10:22,749 --> 01:10:23,782
The whips.
431
01:10:28,381 --> 01:10:31,359
No, no, the velvet
whips, those mark the skin.
432
01:11:06,128 --> 01:11:10,637
I find way to get you out, I do in
laundry hamper, no one can see you.
433
01:11:11,124 --> 01:11:13,532
So I end up in a Chinese laundry, eh?
434
01:11:13,637 --> 01:11:18,216
No, no, french friend laundry,
North Beach, nice family, you stay there.
435
01:11:18,538 --> 01:11:22,015
- Thanks, but no thanks.
- You still want girl?
436
01:11:22,919 --> 01:11:26,431
She sell in minute, go
home with new husband, come.
437
01:11:27,816 --> 01:11:31,862
You better take care of yourself
poor girl, I still have business here.
438
01:11:31,903 --> 01:11:36,257
You one damn fool,
they give you death of 1,000 cuts.
439
01:11:36,373 --> 01:11:40,478
You just show me the way to Ruby
Low rooms and then you make tracks.
440
01:11:41,129 --> 01:11:45,756
Why you want to get rid of me?
Don't I take care of you good so far?
441
01:11:46,254 --> 01:11:49,339
I'm like your momma, I adopted you.
442
01:11:50,367 --> 01:11:52,277
- You still want go Ruby Low?
- Yes.
443
01:11:52,496 --> 01:11:57,171
Ok, I'll take you.
And beside, I'm having so much fun.
444
01:13:08,398 --> 01:13:09,905
She had no hair.
445
01:13:19,752 --> 01:13:23,857
- Cheat, thief, scammer.
- Brothers, of course she had no hair.
446
01:13:24,211 --> 01:13:28,044
How else would you've keep a beauty
of such fieriest at rest at home?
447
01:13:28,076 --> 01:13:29,714
- Cheat.
- Thief.
448
01:13:34,261 --> 01:13:36,290
You wouldn't cheat if Ling Tan were here.
449
01:13:36,510 --> 01:13:41,825
- Lin Tang...
- Lin Tang...
450
01:14:01,008 --> 01:14:03,904
- It's room of Ruby Low.
- Where?
451
01:14:26,034 --> 01:14:27,293
Untied her feet.
452
01:14:27,808 --> 01:14:32,210
Sir, I think you dead, like Lo Gow.
453
01:14:32,252 --> 01:14:34,768
Can you stand up? Move yourself.
454
01:14:42,843 --> 01:14:44,563
Oh boy, firecrackers.
455
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,222
- It's 4th of July, Chinese New Year?
- No...
456
01:14:47,741 --> 01:14:49,426
we're going to play to follow the leader.
457
01:14:49,463 --> 01:14:53,734
You do what I do, put those
firecrackers there, open up.
458
01:15:02,196 --> 01:15:04,938
The Honorable Ling Tan.
459
01:15:10,875 --> 01:15:14,067
Are you truly...
460
01:15:14,389 --> 01:15:18,352
Fighting for a slave girl?
461
01:15:18,636 --> 01:15:24,687
Must this home be
disturbed by the jackal crays...
462
01:15:24,879 --> 01:15:27,940
of men with no respect...
463
01:15:27,971 --> 01:15:31,626
for themselves or their brothers?
464
01:15:31,895 --> 01:15:36,107
- But this is a fraud.
- There is no fraud.
465
01:15:36,553 --> 01:15:42,189
The merchandise is worth all that is asked.
466
01:16:07,943 --> 01:16:11,681
- She's marked.
- Is a flower marked...
467
01:16:11,950 --> 01:16:14,987
because it has dropped a petal?
468
01:16:15,429 --> 01:16:20,756
Or a tree less flawlessly
because it lost a leaf?
469
01:16:28,722 --> 01:16:31,700
It is no leaf, she had
lost a whole head of hair.
470
01:16:43,191 --> 01:16:46,288
The ancients instruct us...
471
01:16:46,585 --> 01:16:51,960
the body is divided into eight parts.
472
01:16:52,548 --> 01:16:57,697
The head, the arms, the hands...
473
01:16:57,873 --> 01:17:00,780
the torso, the legs.
474
01:17:01,959 --> 01:17:06,492
- What is the deal?
- Honorable Wah Chan bid four.
475
01:17:07,058 --> 01:17:10,629
One eight is one part...
476
01:17:10,910 --> 01:17:16,640
The bidden is reduced to three and one half.
477
01:17:17,271 --> 01:17:21,234
Sold as the honorable Wah Chan.
478
01:17:35,431 --> 01:17:38,243
Alright, you stay over
there, you keep watching me.
479
01:17:38,706 --> 01:17:42,408
When you see a signal
like that, you take this torch...
480
01:17:42,859 --> 01:17:46,929
lite it on the lamp and then
ignite the gunpowder, do you understand?
481
01:17:48,516 --> 01:17:49,430
Careful.
482
01:17:53,614 --> 01:17:55,738
You better get out of here
before you're heat get blown out.
483
01:17:55,773 --> 01:17:57,850
No and miss top happy?
484
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,216
I'm not have so much fun since
I get caught in washing machine in Salinas.
485
01:18:02,427 --> 01:18:06,698
If you join ancestors tonight
I go with you. Make new friends.
486
01:18:07,016 --> 01:18:09,508
I mean it, escape while you can.
487
01:18:09,879 --> 01:18:13,011
Escape? Where escape to?
488
01:18:13,432 --> 01:18:17,586
Like show?
Often assignment for Chinese dwarf?
489
01:18:18,238 --> 01:18:20,007
I got take care of you.
490
01:18:22,851 --> 01:18:27,004
And now, the pride of our collection.
An item rarely seen in this market.
491
01:18:27,041 --> 01:18:31,728
Of the finest background, educated in
a mission school, so young, so tender.
492
01:18:31,838 --> 01:18:35,956
Of such consumed purity, truly
an item to be own by a connoisseur.
493
01:18:35,996 --> 01:18:38,404
If you journey to
the celestial kingdom yourself...
494
01:18:38,613 --> 01:18:41,508
you could search and find a no finer bride.
495
01:18:41,546 --> 01:18:45,296
She has the charm of youth, the
innocence of the first depth of view.
496
01:18:45,327 --> 01:18:47,890
The unawakened fire of
the woman she is to be.
497
01:18:48,182 --> 01:18:50,674
Truly a treasure, truly a challenge...
498
01:18:50,716 --> 01:18:54,596
to the man of feast who knows
worth, who values only the best.
499
01:18:54,637 --> 01:18:59,027
The blossom of lotus itself, a flower
to quicken the heart of any brother.
500
01:18:59,059 --> 01:19:01,658
- Three heads.
- Go, this is how to bid.
501
01:19:01,697 --> 01:19:05,174
- This is something to bid for.
- We hear at the beginning, I see five.
502
01:19:05,213 --> 01:19:06,151
Six.
503
01:19:06,189 --> 01:19:07,791
- And a half.
- Three quarters.
504
01:19:07,828 --> 01:19:08,824
- Seven.
- And a half.
505
01:19:10,449 --> 01:19:11,956
Fifteen heads?
506
01:19:15,407 --> 01:19:19,702
- Brother, you're too old for such a bride.
- She would be a widow before she's a bride.
507
01:19:25,486 --> 01:19:27,526
Fifteen heads is higher bid.
508
01:19:34,524 --> 01:19:39,021
You demonstrate you wisdom ancient brother,
she'll keep you warm in your old age.
509
01:19:39,055 --> 01:19:40,159
Sold.
510
01:19:41,831 --> 01:19:42,757
Fool.
511
01:19:56,141 --> 01:19:57,637
This is not opium.
512
01:19:59,349 --> 01:20:01,521
- Stop the old man.
- Stop.
513
01:20:06,416 --> 01:20:10,819
Let's fight, they're
trying to escape, stop the old man.
514
01:20:25,385 --> 01:20:26,596
George Wah.
515
01:20:32,638 --> 01:20:36,258
The girls are escaping, stop the girls.
516
01:20:47,590 --> 01:20:53,131
There's go Ling Tan treasure chest,
Ruby won't be able to buy an army now.
517
01:21:10,564 --> 01:21:13,898
George, welcome back from
the dead, here, take that now.
518
01:21:14,598 --> 01:21:17,683
- Stop the girl,
- Get out of here.
519
01:21:21,041 --> 01:21:24,814
- You wait that China in Pasadena.
- There's no union.
520
01:21:35,097 --> 01:21:37,304
Come here, fallow.
521
01:22:23,218 --> 01:22:25,697
The sword of evil will melt in the fire.
522
01:22:30,334 --> 01:22:33,537
You can hold our head up again,
slave traffic lies in those ashes.
523
01:22:33,693 --> 01:22:34,666
Come on.
524
01:22:45,993 --> 01:22:47,060
Here they come.
525
01:22:57,566 --> 01:22:58,895
Here, manhold.
526
01:23:46,484 --> 01:23:49,557
Sun and Moon shoot that with arrow.
527
01:23:51,011 --> 01:23:53,538
Say hello to ancestors.
528
01:23:54,072 --> 01:23:54,998
Til...
529
01:23:56,260 --> 01:23:57,506
til then.
530
01:24:20,095 --> 01:24:24,734
A strife, an agony was dissolving.
531
01:24:25,340 --> 01:24:29,967
As she grabs me closer,
the nightmare of shame was over.
532
01:24:30,159 --> 01:24:33,150
And she, whatever she had been...
533
01:24:33,540 --> 01:24:38,594
It's now only a woman in my arms,
pledge to an unknown journey.
534
01:24:38,630 --> 01:24:43,400
All passions left, all leave behind us.
535
01:24:59,073 --> 01:25:01,647
Was it a dream of the poppy...
536
01:25:02,401 --> 01:25:05,522
or was it at last, reality?
537
01:25:06,686 --> 01:25:09,973
As once again I put out to sea...
538
01:25:10,197 --> 01:25:14,447
were these the withing waters of death...
539
01:25:14,469 --> 01:25:17,127
or the gates of paradise?45173
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