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You can stream Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.

Can a martial arts instructor protect his community from the systemic cruelty of the American frontier? This genre-bending collision pits traditional kung fu against the brutal realities of railroad labor and racial hostility.

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