Shinjuku Incident
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Hong Kong film poster
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| Directed by | Derek Yee |
| Produced by |
Willie Chan Solon So |
| Written by | Derek Yee Chun Tin-nam |
| Starring | Jackie Chan Naoto Takenaka Daniel Wu Xu Jinglei Fan Bingbing |
| Music by | Peter Kam |
| Cinematography | Kita Nobayasu |
| Edited by | Kong Chi-leung Cheung Ka-fai |
| Distributed by | JCE Movies Limited |
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Running time
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119 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language |
Mandarin Cantonese Japanese English Southern Min Hokkien |
| Budget | HK $250 million $32,221,892 |
| Box office | $5,461,200 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 新宿事件 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 新宿事件 | ||||||||||
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| Kanji | 新宿インシデント | ||||||||||
| Kana | しんじゅくインシデント | ||||||||||
| Hiragana | しんじゅくいんしでんと | ||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Xīnsù Shìjiàn |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | San1 Suk1 Si6 Gin2 |
Shinjuku Incident (Chinese: 新宿事件; pinyin: Xīnsù Shìjiàn; Jyutping: San1 Suk1 Si6 Gin2, Japanese: 新宿インシデント) is a 2009 Hong Kong crime drama film written and directed by Derek Yee, and also and starring Jackie Chan. The film was distributed by Chan's own film company, JCE Movies Limited.
It was stated in many press reports that the genre of the film would be closer to drama, Film director Derek Yee said, "People are too familiar with the image of a fighting Jackie Chan. It's time for him to move on to drama." In a recent interview, Chan himself describes the film as, "maybe one percent action. Heavy drama."
The film 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 in Hong Kong.
In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan) illegally enters Japan from China in search of his fiancée, Xiu-Xiu (Xu Jinglei) with the help of his "brother" Jie (Daniel Wu). Jie has taught Steelhead how to make a living by teaching him the trades of the underworld. One day, while illegally working as part of a clean-up crew in the sewers, Steelhead and his Chinese comrades are spotted by the police. Unwilling to get caught, Steelhead and the others run for their lives. In the ensuing turn of events, Steelhead saves Detective Kitano from drowning, and in gratitude, Kitano decides to stop pursuing Steelhead.
One night, while working in a restaurant with Jie, Steelhead finds Xiu-Xiu with Yakuza leader Eguchi (Masaya Kato). Saddened by seeing his fiancée with another man, he spends the night with Jie drinking and partying with hookers. Once sober, Steelhead decides to become a legal citizen of Japan by any means possible. Steelhead and his Chinese friends then go on an aggressive money laundering operation, but leave Jie out of it due to his kind hearted nature. Unfortunately, Taiwanese triad leader, Gao (Jack Kao), discovers one of his pachinko machines has been tampered with (fixed by Steelhead's group) and vows to punish the culprit. Jie gets caught playing the violence tampered pachinko machine and is taken to a dark alleyway where Gao slices Jie's face and cuts off his right hand while trying to get information. Upon learning that Jie is held by the Taiwanese gang, Steelhead and the rest of their group go and collect Jie.
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