The best Soo Yong’s movies

Soo Yong

Soo Yong

If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Soo Yong’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Soo Yong.
Genre:
Available on:

Sayonara

Sayonara
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1957
  • Character: Terukosan
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily an officer who is by-the-book, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man Joe Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love with a Japanese woman Katsumi (Miyoshi Umeki) and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

In Harm's Way

In Harm's Way
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/04/1965
  • Character: Tearful Woman
A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

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 Seas

China Seas
6.9/10
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

Big Jim McLain

Big Jim McLain
5.1/10
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

The Good Earth

The Good Earth
7.5/10
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song
6.9/10
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Soldier of Fortune

Soldier of Fortune
6.2/10
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is led by some underground characters to an American soldier of fortune working in the area against the Communists. He promises to help find her husband.

Peking Express

Peking Express
5.7/10
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

China

China
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 21/04/1943
  • Character: Tai Shen
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
6.5/10
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

Klondike Annie

Klondike Annie
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/02/1936
  • Character: Fah Wong
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

Mad Holiday

Mad Holiday
6/10
The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of starring in murder mysteries, Trent discovers he can't escape typecasting even on an ocean voyage: one of the passengers is murdered in our hero's cabin. The killing is tied in with a stolen diamond and a seemingly unending supply of suspects. To avoid being arrested himself, Trent teams up with pretty detective novelist "Peter" Dean (Elissa Landi) to solve the mystery. As Trent's wisecracking press agent Mert Morgan, Ted Healey has a wonderful moment when he stumbles over a corpse and asks nonchalantly, "What's the matter with him, he crocked?"

Flight to Hong Kong

Flight to Hong Kong
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/10/1956
  • Character: Mama Lin
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony (Rory Calhoun), a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend (Dolores Donlon) or pursue Pamela (Barbara Rush), an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated. Viewing Tony's dastardly deeds as great material for her new book, Pamela gladly encourages him to continue his criminal behavior.

Secrets of the Wastelands

Secrets of the Wastelands
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/11/1941
  • Character: May Soong
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.

Target Hong Kong

Target Hong Kong
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 06/02/1953
  • Character: Lao Shan
Blasting the world's worst spy nest!

Related actors