The Shinjuku Incident
(G)- Release Date: 2nd April 2009 (Showtimes)
- Language: Mandarin
- Running Time: 120 mins
- Genre: Drama / Action
- Director: Derek Yee
- Cast: Masaya Kato, Jack Kao, Fan Bingbing, Ken Watanabe, Daniel Wu. (Full Cast)
- Local Distributor: Golden Village Pictures
In the early 1990's, a tractor mechanic from China nicknamed Steelhead illegally enters Japan to search for his girlfriend. To make ends meet, he joins his friend in Shinjuku in doing menial labour. Steelhead finds out that his girlfriend has married Eguchi, a Japanese Yakuza leader. Steelhead decides to stay on in Japan and work for Eguchi as a hitman. Soon, Steelhead gets used to the power and finds himself embroiled so deeply in the ways of the underworld that there is no turning back.
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Undone by Good Intentions
What I loved most: The immigrant experience drama
What I really hated: Daniel Wu's unconvincing character
A well-meaning movie like this often gets caught up in its own good intentions. This wants to be an expose on the immigrant experience, but it also wants to be a gritty gangland drama, and ends up being a strange half-breed. Jackie Chan is (surprise, surprise) competent enough, if rather distracting, and it might've been better if someone else had played his role.
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