Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)

Gilbert de Quincey is an early-19th-century adventurer involved in helping runaway slave girls and victims of a tong war in San Francisco. Garbed in black from head to toe, de Quincey narrates his adventures. At the slave auction where beautiful Asian girls are displayed in hanging bamboo cages, de Quincey befriends a wisecracking female Asian dwarf.