The best Richard Loo’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Richard Loo

Richard Loo

01/10/1903- 20/11/1983
Today we present the best Richard Loo’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Richard Loo’s movies.

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/12/1944
  • Character: Lt. Shon
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/01/1933
  • Character: Captain Li
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan
6.6/10
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
6.4/10
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

China Sky

China Sky
5.9/10
In a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who is jealous of Sara, shows herself a coward in the first Japanese air raid, and wants to take Gray back to the States. Others have similar troubles; and Japanese prisoner Colonel Yasuda manipulates them for his own ends.

Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific
6.8/10
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.

Malaya

Malaya
6.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 27/12/1949
  • Character: Colonel Genichi Tomura
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.

First Yank into Tokyo

First Yank into Tokyo
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/09/1945
  • Character: Col. Hideko Okanura
A U.S. pilot (Tom Neal) undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.

Betrayal from the East

Betrayal from the East
6/10
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 01/08/1943
  • Character: Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

I Was an American Spy

I Was an American Spy
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/04/1951
  • Character: Col. Masamato
An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.

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