City of violence

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Movie
German title City of violence
Original title 新宿 事件
Sansuk sigin
City of Violence Logo.png
Country of production Hong Kong
original language Chinese
Cantonese
Japanese
Publishing year 2009
length approx. 119/117 minutes
Age rating FSK 18/16
Rod
Director Derek Yee
script Derek Yee
Chun Tin-Nam
production Willie Chan
Solon So
music Peter Kam
camera Kita Nobayasu
cut Kong Chi-Leung
Cheung Ka-Fai
occupation

Shinjuku Incident ( Chinese  新宿事件 , Pinyin Xinsu Shijian , Jyutping San 1 suk 1 si 6 gin 6 , English Shinjuku Incident ) is a 2009 in Hong Kong and Japan turned yakuza film directed by Derek Yee . It has often been said in the press that his genre more of a drama rather than a action film to Jackie Chan would style. Director Derek Yee himself said that people are too familiar with a struggling chan and that it is time for him to do a drama.

action

In Shinjuku Incident is about Tietou ( 鐵頭  /  铁头 , English steelhead ), a northern Chinese who in the 1990s with the help of a freighter to Japan illegally immigrates to his girlfriend Xiuxiu ( 秀秀 to search). Once there, he looks for his brother Jie and ends up in Shinjuku , a neighborhood in Tokyo . Jie takes care of him and introduces him to other illegally immigrated Chinese who support Tietou and teach him about life in the Japanese underground.

The police interrogate you when you work in the sewer system. When she tries to arrest the illegal immigrants, they try to flee. Inspector Kitano, who cannot swim, pursues her but falls into a sewer, whereupon Tietou pulls him out of the water. Before Kitano can say thank you, Tietou flees. In another job as a dishwasher, Tietou witnesses a Chinese woman named Lily being attacked in a back alley, whereupon he saves her. In the bar that belongs to Lily, the two get closer. While working in a restaurant, he happened to see his girlfriend Xiu Xiu, who is now married to the high-ranking yakuzaboss Eguchi. In grief over being abandoned by his girlfriend, he decides to become a legal citizen of Japan. Any means is right for him to achieve this goal and so he starts a large-scale criminal campaign that includes credit card fraud and slot machine manipulation. It is noticeable that Jie was not made for such a job, and so Tietou and his friends give him a chestnut stand. When Jie flirts with the daughter of a trader who is supported by the yakuza , he is discovered by the trader and led into an ambush, where he is beaten up by some yakuza. He also confiscated his chestnut stand. When Tietou finds out about this, he decides to bring the chestnut wagon back by force. While he and his friends are raiding the dealer to get the chestnut stall back, the police arrive. When Tietou wants to flee with the chestnut stand, he is stopped by Inspector Kitano, who lets him go in thanks for saving his life in the canal. Kitano also gives Tietou his cell phone number so that he can contact him if he needs help.

Taiwanese triad leader Gao finds out that his slot machines are being tampered with and catches Jie playing at it, after which he tortures him and chops off his hand. Tietou and his people try to help Jie, but cannot do anything because they are unarmed. Some time later, Tietou sneaks in at a meeting between Gao and Eguchi in order to get revenge on Gao. When Gao wants to kill Eguchi, Tietou saves him and cuts off Gao’s hand. In gratitude for his rescue, Eguchi offers Tietou work, which Tietou does not respond to at first. Tietou leaves the property and tells Xiu Xiu that she should visit her mother. A few days later, while Lily is visiting Tietou, Eguchi appears and asks him to kill two yakuza bosses. Tietou agrees and in exchange receives an unlimited residence permit and the territory of the triad leader Gao. Tietou leaves the business to his friends and opens a legal tractor business with Lily.

After some time, Inspector Kitano visits Tietou and explains to him that the power has corrupted his old friends and that they are now the most powerful foreign criminal gang in Japan and will soon be arrested. Tietou wants to testify against Eguchi if his friends are not arrested for it. Meanwhile, there is a great deal of dissatisfaction with Eguchi in the yakuza, after which it is decided to eliminate it. When Tietou goes with Kitano to his friends' headquarters to talk to them about ending their criminal activities, a large group of yakuza sneaks up to murder Eguchi, who is also in this building because he is doing business with the corrupted Jie power. Tietou's old friends, unwilling to go out of business, try to murder Tietou when they are surprised by the attacking yakuza. Almost all of Tietou's old friends die when the fight breaks out. Jie escapes, but later overdoses himself on drugs. Eguchi was also killed in the attack, but before his death he gave Tietou a USB stick with evidence against the organized crime. Kitano and Tietou barely escape the house, but lose sight of each other as they escape. Kitano meets the police support he has previously requested in front of the house. Tietou contacts Xiu Xiu and tells her about the death of her husband Eguchi and tells her to meet him at the train station. The Yakuza present hear about it and go to the train station. Tietou also contacts Kitano and tells him that he is at the train station, whereupon Kitano and some police officers go there. At the train station, Tietou is discovered, pursued, intercepted and shot by the yakuza before the police can intervene. In search of Tietou, Kitano ends up in the sewer system, where he finds him dying. Tietou gives the inspector the USB stick and dies from being shot in the lung.

production

According to Derek Yee, the film had been in the planning for ten years. However, it did not start until May 2006. Since Chan was busy with the film Rush Hour 3 , the shooting of City of Violence was delayed . On Chan's website, he stated that filming for the film will begin in Japan in a few weeks . Filming began in November 2007.

publication

The film premiered on April 2, 2009 as the opening film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival . It was published in many Asian countries in April . On February 4, 2010, he is known as DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Germany appeared. City of Violence has grossed around $ 40 million on a production budget of $ 25 million.

criticism

“Jackie Chan in a dark and dramatic thriller. Rather untypical for the Eastern Star, but convincing. "

- Widescreen vision

“As the Chinese farm worker Tietou, who is looking for his childhood friend in Tokyo and slips into the gang crime of the immigrant district of Shinjuku, Hong Kong's good-mood icon after 'New Police Story' is now finally proving her dramatic acting talent. Chan's tragic antihero turns the somewhat erratic gangster drama into a gripping, brutal portrait of society, the creation of which is treated very superficially on the bonus DVD despite four hours of running time. "

- Alex Attimonelli, Cinema

Awards

Hong Kong Film Awards 2010:

  • Nomination in the category Best Picture for Jackie Chan , Willie Chan and Solon So
  • Nominated for Best Director for Derek Yee
  • Nominated in the Best Camera category for Kita Nobayasu
  • Nomination for Best Action Choreography for Chin Kar Lok

Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 2009

  • Film of Merit for Derek Yee

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