With the tenyear cultural revolution, film industry was singled out as a target for public criticism. Buy shinjuku incident bluray uncut version hong kong version at with free international shipping. Shared cultural heritage of japan and the netherlands rijksdienst. 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. The description on its description page there is shown below. Jackie chan in shinjuku incident 2010 movie moviefone.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the shinjuku incident near you. Provocative, compelling and underscored with hardhitting action, this pulsepounding thriller explodes with tension, and delivers a careerdefining performance from international actionsuperstar, jackie chan. A farmer known as steelhead jackie chan, goes to japan and finds the woman he loves married to a yakuza underboss. Shinjuku incident is an action film where jackie chan can. 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. Jackie chan admirably acts more here than he performs action stunts. Levy 2001, a prominent french philosopher and sociologist, defines. The story of shinjuku incident sounds like the premise for some impressive jackie chan stunts and numerous fights. Book depository books with free delivery worldwide. San qiang pai an jing qi a woman a gun and a noodle shop aka the first gun. Heavy metal magazine is a magazine that gets a new issue every 34 months that collects various. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that youve provided to them or that theyve collected from your use of their services. The film was originally to be released on 25 september 2008 but.
Industrial revolution and all the social and economic changes. Shinjuku incident feels less like an illegal immigrant drama than it does an allstar gangster thriller featuring a serious performance from jackie chan. After providing a deadly service to a powerful yakuza crime boss, steelheads rise to mafia power spirals rapidly out of control as hes given reign. The film was distributed by chans own film company, jce movies limited. Pdf mapping urban complexity in an asian context researchgate. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. Jackie chan in shinjuku incident 2010 a chinese worker in japan becomes the leader of an illegal immigrant gang.
Unable to find honest work and bullied into the shadows with his fellow chinese illegal immigrants, he soon finds himself ascending as the boss of a black market mob. Rent shinjuku incident 2009 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. If you want to start a main shinjukuincident page, just click the edit button above. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. Shinjuku incident trailer hd international youtube. His life descends into darkness, and petty crime escalates to murder. Film censorship in china involves the banning of films deemed unsuitable for release or the. The trailer for shinjuku incident superstar jackie chan stars in this actionpacked crime drama as an immigrant looking for honest work, who soon finds himself a rising mafia crime boss battling the shadowy underworld of asias most ruthless gangs. But jackie chan doesnt just play jackie chan like he always does. The chinese migrant communities in tokyo live shadowy lives. Inspector lee and detective carter are back in action as they head to paris to protect a french woman with knowledge of the triads secret leaders. Shinjuku inshidento is a 2009 hong kong crime drama film written and directed by derek yee, and also starring jackie chan. However, shinjuku incident is hit and miss, as it spreads itself thin with too much plot and characters while the direction is bombastic and clumsy in its overstylization at times.
The french revolution by hilaire belloc free ebook. Fresh after his painful buffoonery in the spy next door, jackie chan tacks the opposite direction in this tough yet. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. In a reimagined history of the french revolution, the guillotines future inventor uncovers a disease that drives the aristocracy to murder. He teams up with a group of chinese workers who help him get a roof, some manual labour and sharing a tricks on how to survive living shadowy live. In fact, steelhead doesnt know any kung fu at all and also isnt anyone who likes to. Shinjuku incident is an attempt to reclaim a sense of dignity in chans international career and smooth over the ruffled feathers of a nowcautious hong kong audience. Jackie chan is my most favorite asian actor, all of his films are absolutely brilliant, all ways jam packed full of action from start to finish, the man is a hero always known for his comedy and action stunts, this film is set in tokyo in the shinjuku district, chinese imigrants looking for work in japan find it hard to make a living some dont make it some fall to the underworld and then. Balkenende in october 2009 who visited japan as a state guest on. Hundreds of chinese refugees wash up on japans wakasa bay.
Perhaps the film would have been better served with an actor like lau chingwan or francis ng in the lead role basically, a guy whose presence wouldnt have overshadowed the proceedings. Each has a dream of a better life, but most will encounter only prejudice and oppression. He is welcomed by his countrymen who lodge and work in shinjuku where they also help him to find illegal work. Shinjuku incident ethnic chinese gangs stumble as they cross swords with the japanese mafia in jackie chan starrer shinjuku incident, an overambitious, narratively untidy urban crimer. The scenes of violence and torture may not be for every viewers taste, but the shinjuku incident is a rewarding experience for those viewers exploring. Steelhead is an illegal chinese immigrant in japan who comes to tokyo to find his childhood sweetheart xiu xiu. In a reimagined history of the french revolution, the guillotines future inventor uncovers a disease that drives the aristocracy to. Shinjuku incident guerre des gangs a tokyo film 2009. Shinjuku incident 2009 posters the movie database tmdb. Jackie chan does a complete volte face with respect to his screen persona in a movie that fails to lift itself above the ordinary. Shinjuku incident 2009 derek yee cineasia trailer hd. Rent shinjuku incident 2009 starring jackie chan and naoto takenaka on dvd and bluray. Unreleased in mainland china due to its excessive violence, derek yees crime picture shinjuku incident is a rare attempt at serious drama for action star jackie chan.
Shinjuku incident widescreen, ac3, dolby on movies unlimited. Later, after an incident with his cousin, joe, and a taiwan gang, tietou saves the powerful yakuza boss toshinari eguchi. They are shunned by the mainstream society, hounded by the yakuza, and go about. The film was described by ronald bergan of the guardian as an explosive agitprop movie equating sexual liberation with revolution, whose impact has cooled only marginally. Looking for his lost love, a chinese man heads to tokyo where he reluctantly becomes a yakuza hit man after learning that she married into the mob. He is the husband of xiu xiu, who is now called yuko and are parents of a little daughter. Steelhead is a chinese laborer who comes to japan hoping for a better life.
The french revolution has ceased to be the paradigm case of. Shinjuku incident is a 2009 hong kong crime drama film written and directed by derek yee, and also starring jackie chan. Shinjuku city, which is located near the center of the 23 cities of tokyo drainage. This is an alphabetical list of film articles or sections within articles about films. Shinjuku incident, 2009, hong kong, banned for being too violent when. Icas 6 will be held in daejeon south korea from 69 august 2009. As steelhead, a taciturn mechanic who endures the punishing life of illegal chinese immigrants in japan while looking for a missing sweetheart, chan drops his trademark balletic.
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