Went to watch Shinjuku Incident on last Sunday, with Jie Kai and Kang. At first, I thought it was a total-Japanese movie but when I was the poster, then I finally realized that it was the new Jackie Chan movie.
Release Date: 2nd April 2009
Directed by: Derek Yee
Cast:
Plot: In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic from
China nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan) enters
Japan illegally, in search of his girlfriend Xiu Xiu (
Xu Jinglei). Steelhead and his friend, Jie (
Daniel Wu) meet in the busy
Shinjuku district of
Tokyo and take manual labouring jobs to earn money. When Steelhead finds out that Xiu Xiu has married a Japanese Yakuza leader named Eguchi (
Kato Masaya), he decides to remain in Japan. To obtain citizenship, he agrees to work for Eguchi as a killer, but quickly becomes used to the power. Soon he has become embroiled so deeply in the ways of the yakuza that there is no turning back.
The Japanese neither acknowledge nor welcome them. They were shunned by the society, terrorized by the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia), living in fear of being discovered and threatened. SteelHead then realised that in order for the Chinese to live in peace without the fear of being terrorized by the Japanese Mafia and the Taiwanese gang, the Chinese had to stand united as one, However, Steelhead found himself pitting against the Japanese Mafia. During his journey, unexpectedly and unfortunately, he found out that Xiu Xiu had married to Eguchi, one of the Japanese Mafia sub-heads, and adopted an Japanese identity.
SteelHead eventually won the respect of his Chinese comrades by giving a roof under their heads, allying with Eguchi unwillingly. Eguchi's plan was actually to hire Steelhead to assasinate two rivals of his, who were also two of the sub-heads of the Japanese Mafia. However, Steelhead requested for the control of territories of the Chinese from the Taiwan mafias. After establishing the empire for the Chinese, Steelhead decided that this gangster life isn't suitable for him, he found himself a new love, Lily. acted by Fan BingBing and opened a tractor repairing service outside the capital of Tokyo. However, trouble has just surfaced for our main character, as Eguchi made use of his Chinese comrades on a drug-trafficking business and assasins sent by the Japanese mafias all around plotting to assasinate him.
Steelhead reprimanded himself as he thought that he was the cause for all of these mess. Therefore, he vowed to bring Eguchi down with the help of police officer, Kitano, acted by Naoto Takenaka. Moreover, he also know that he would be destroying himself and his loved one by doing so. Can the simple migrant who turned into this heroic one take on the Japanese mafia alone and become victorious? You would have to catch the movie then!
P.S. For those die-hard fans who have been watching Jackie in action since young, I don't think that you would regret after watching it. I would give this movie a 4/5.
