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Shinjuku Incident

San suk si gin

Hong Kong

2009

119 Min
Color
2.35:1
Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, English, Min Nan, Hokkien
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DIR Derek Yee

EXEC Albert Yeung, Jackie Chan, Henry Fong

PROD Solon So, Willie Chan

SCR Derek Yee, Chun Tin Nam

DP Nobuyasu Kita

CAST Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Xu Jinglei, Masaya Kato, Tôru Minegishi, Yasuaki Kurata, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kenya Sawada, Jack Kao, Paul Chun, Lam Suet, Ken Lo, Teddy Lin, Chin Kar Lok

ED Tang Man To, Kwong Chi-leung, Cheung Ka-Fai

PROD DES Oliver Wong

MUSIC Peter Kam

SOUND Nopawat Likitwong

Synopsis

In China, the poor worker Tietou repairs tractors and misses his sweetheart Xiu Xiu, back in Japan, she having never sent any news to her family or him. While illegally emigrating to Japan, Tietou loses his Chinese documents and so cannot return to his country. He is welcomed by his countrymen who lodge and work in Shinjuku where they also help him to find illegal work. While running from a police raid through the sewage system where Chinese are illegally working, Tietou saves Inspector Kitano from drowning in the dirty water. Later, after an incident with his cousin, Joe, and a Taiwan gang, Tietou saves the powerful Yakuza boss Toshinari Eguchi. He is the husband of Xiu Xiu, who is now called Yuko and are parents of a little daughter. The mobster offers a dirty job to Tietou; in retribution, he promises to deliver the quarter dominated by the Taiwan gang to him. Tietou becomes the boss of the Chinese illegal immigrants. But his peaceful methods make him unpopular and Tietou starts to lose control over his men which escalates into a giant gang war. —IMDb

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Derek Yee

Derek Yee Tung-sing (simplified Chinese: 尔冬升; traditional Chinese: 爾冬陞; Mandarin Pinyin: Ěr Dōngshēng; Jyutping: Yee5 Tung1 Sing1), born in 1957, is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. He is the younger half-brother of famed Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter also a former Shaw Brothers star.

Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong between 1975 and 1986, during the time when Shaw Brothers Studio were still producing movies. Since then Yee turned to screenwriting and directing and has made a career out of making films like C’est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica and The Truth About Jane and Sam and also gritty dramas like One Night in Mongkok and Protégé.

Derek Yee was a former boyfriend of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung. —Wikipedia… read more

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Daniel S.

9Mar12

Constructed like De Niro's A Bronx Tale or Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, Shinjuku Incident shows us that the life of a gang follows certain inevitable steps like a man's life. Jackie Chan doesn't smile in this one. Recommended.

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SHINJUKU INCIDENT Review

By Twitchfilm.com on June 4, 2011
[Many thanks to James Marsh for the following review of Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident.] Shinjuku Incident has long been touted as Jackie Chan’s first foray into truly serious acting. Even though such promises
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[DVD TRAILER ADDED] See Jackie Chan act! THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT comes to UK DVD and Blu-ray

By Twitchfilm.com on June 4, 2011
Although I’ve never really warmed to Jackie Chan’s unique blend of mayhem and mirth, I’ve seen enough of his action pics to be more than a little intrigued by the prospect of him attempting some ‘proper’
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Jackie Chan's SHINJUKU INCIDENT Hits US Theaters February 5th

By Twitchfilm.com on June 4, 2011
Well, this bit of news kind of came out of nowhere.  Derek Yee’s action-drama The Shinjuku Incident – billed by many as the first serious, dramatic role of Jackie Chan’s career, though you can argue that
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