By Lisa See. Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), a fictional martial arts cop action movie directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock and Jet Li (in his first American film), the film uses a vessel running aground with a cargo hold of smuggled Chinese slave laborers to start the action. In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ("Debt" - Season 6: Episode 2), the detectives speak to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who mentions that Chinese smugglers no longer bring their cargo in container ships since Golden Venture ran aground in 1993. A similar scenario based on the Golden Venture story is part of the storyline in GTA San Andreas. In the San Fierro segment of the story the container ship owned by a Vietnamese gang Da Nang Boys is used to smuggle immigrants in the containers. Direct reference to this event is also the name of the leader of this gang (Snakehead) Chang-rae Lee's 1995 novel Native Speaker (novel)'' includes scenes based on the Golden Venture. See also Illegal immigration to the United States Pacific Solution Fuzhounese Americans References External links Website for The Snakehead. Website for "Golden Venture" documentary. Article in "New York Times". Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean Shipwrecks of the Florida coast International maritime incidents Immigration to the United States Rockaway, Queens Maritime incidents in 1993 Refugees in the United States Human rights in the United States Triad (organized crime) Scuttled vessels 1969 ships Illegal immigration to the United States