If you are a Jackie Chan fan, you might not want to miss this. However, please be prepared people, this is the first time I saw Jackie Chan starring in a movie that doesn't involve his super duper kung fu kicks, just a regular guy with no kung fu whatsoever trying to achieve something for his own people in a foreign land called Japan.
This movie is about the yakuza (mafia) in Japan trying to outlive each other in order to hold power among the society, while Japan is facing problems with Chinese illegal immigrants that is increasing from time to time. Steelhead (Jackie Chan) went to find the love of his life, while trying to survive in the country where he has no knowledge of their language and life style finds his old friend, Jie and make more friends whom was also Chinese illegal immigrants that came from different parts of China. Together, they trying to make their living as decent as possible but 'a decent living' was hard, so they opt to do some underground business as well...but it turns out to be bad when the innocent Jie was mistakenly accused of modifying the pachinko machine and had his face slashed and his hand cut off by the Taiwanese gangster.
Steelhead finally found his girlfriend, Xiuxiu (Xu JingLei) that has already changed her name to Yuko Eguchi, the wife of Eguchi, one of the well respected Yakuza in the Shinjuku district whom Steelhead later saved his life and worked for. Steelhead finally found the 'victory' for the Chinese illegals alright, but as time goes by, it turns to be something that he was unexpected of.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars. =)
You can watch the trailer here:
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