Shinjuku Incident (2009)

Original title

新宿事件

Directed by

Derek Yee

Genre

drama film, action film, crime thriller film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 322 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese man named Steelhead goes to Japan as an illegal immigrant to search for his lost fiancee. He gets pulled into violent conflicts with the Japanese underworld.

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What happens

Shinjuku Incident (Chinese: 新宿事件; pinyin: Xīnsù Shìjiàn; Jyutping: San1 Suk1 Si6 Gin2, Japanese: 新宿インシデント Shinjuku Inshidento) is a 2009 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Derek Yee, and written by Yee and Chun Tin-nam. It stars Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Xu Jinglei, and Fan Bingbing. The film tells the story of Steelhead (Chan), a labour worker from China who travels to Japan as an illegal immigrant to look for his long-lost fiancée Xiu Xiu (Jinglei), only to be embroiled in the violent Japanese underworld. The film was distributed by Chan's own film company, JCE Movies Limited. It was originally to be released on 25 September 2008 but was delayed to the first quarter of 2009. It premiered at the 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival and was released on 2 April 2009. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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