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| Shinjuku Incident |
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| Hong Kong, 2009, 120', 35mm, colour |
| Derek Yee |
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screenplay Derek Yee, Chun Tin-nam
cinematography Nobuyasu Kita
editing Kong Chi-leung, Cheung Ka-fai
music Peter Kam
art direction Oliver Wong
costumes Castilho Angelo Bernardo, Satoe Araki
cast Jackie Chan (Steelhead), Naoto Takenaka (Kitano), Daniel Wu (Jie), Xu Jinglei (Xiu Xiu), Masaya Kato (Eguchi), Fan Bingbing (Lily)
producer Willie Chan, Solon So
production Emperor Dragon Movies Limited
world sales Emperor Motion Pictures
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shinjukuincident.emp.hk
In 1990, Steelhead emigrates clandestinely from China to Japan to find his girlfriend Xiu Xiu. To get by, Steelhead and his close friend Jie work all kinds of humble, underpaid jobs. Life in the Chinese neighborhood of Shinjuku is hard because of ethnic clashes with the Japanese and abuse at the hands of the local mafiosos. Steelhead convinces his friends to organize and help one another. He finds Xiu Xiu married to young, up-and-coming Yakuza boss Eguchi, with whom he decides to join forces in order to clean up the neighborhood and get Japanese citizenship.
One of the things that struck me when I was researching for the script was that how little human nature has changed or indeed will ever change through the years. People have always moved to where the money was or the economy was booming. We're not just talking about Asians but Europeans as well. And, when these migrants settle in and are oppressed, these societies survive and evolving into organizations. (Derek Yee)
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