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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Trinity Home Ent
Salesrank: 9339
Released: October 24, 2006 |
| Our Price: $8.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Based on the James Clavell s best-selling novel Tai Pan is an unforgettable adventure during the early China trade when epic adventures carved dynasties out of barren rock and the opium trade pitted father against son and friends against one another. For trader Dirk Struan the silver and opium exchange is almost impossible to resist but everything comes to an action-packed head when he is forced to choose between the ones he loves and profit beyond his imagination.System Requirements:Runnign Time: 127 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 692865145332 Manufacturer No: T-1453
Tai Pan Reviews:
Good, but... 
2009-12-01 - Typical Hollywood in that they had to slice it down to the digestible 2 hour (give or take a bit) morsel. Funny enough, I actually thought this was a 10 hour mini-series, like the other Clavell books on film. And for the first hour and a half of the film, it was following the book on pace.
Then they rocketed through the last 400 pages of the book in about 20 minutes, while cleverly adding a segment from Gai Jin (a later Clavell novel) and a happy ending.
All and all, not too bad.
great trading empires
2009-11-22 - James Clavell is known for his blockbuster best selling novels about the historical orient.
Shogun and Gai-Jin are both sagas of more than 1000 pages each.
This movie is an abbreviation of one of those novels about the founding of Hong Kong
and the place it played in the Opium, tea and silk trade. The enslavement of Chinese
to the opium smoking habit made many British trading house fortunes.
This movie is a fictionalization of life of such a trader Dirk Struan
and his feud with another trader. Since there are more than one book in these series,
the movie has a kind of incomplete feel to it. The revolving morals
of these tycoons involved father two or more families,one entirely English
and the other half Chinese.
Understanding and misunderstanding lead to strange crosses of destiny
between Chinese and English that end in a change of ownership
caused by a large storm.
High Quality DVD 
2009-08-04 - I am one of the very few really crazy fans of tai pan and Noble House. I am happy silly about the DVD. I originally recorded this live on VHS. I am impressed by the quality of the digital master. You can see the all the sharp details. I am very pleased and very happy with menus, picture and sound quality.
This is the second book in a long time line from Shogun to King Rat to Noble House. All of these are connected.
SO SO
2009-07-07 - OK but does not do justice to the book. Way to much left out. Should have been a Mini Series like Shogun or Noble house.
Tai Pan & Nobel House
2009-06-14 - I love Asian stories. Asian stories have a historical benefit. Not enough movies have been used to portray Chinese and Japanese actors. I feel that the movie industry should use people of their ethnic qualites and not a makeup person to play non-white roles.
