![]() ![]() From that point on, we're totally immersed in this mixed world of outsiders. To them, he's an outsider: he explains his "bastard" origins: half Japanese, half Chinese (casting comments on diegesis here: Kaneshiro himself is Taiwanese, of mixed Japanese Chinese parentage). The film addresses its central issue right away: the prologue opens with narrator/protagonist Ryu Kenichi/Liu Jianyi (played by Takeshi Kaneshiro) stopped by police in Shinjuku. It is a hybrid in many ways: a Lee Chi-ngai magical romance grafted onto a baroque neo-noir, a Hong Kong art film cum Japanese contemporary hyper-urban thriller. ![]() Sleepless Town, a Japan/Hong Kong coproduction, internalizes the issue of hybridization that can beset transnational film production. ![]() Coproductions, though, can come with their own problems, central among them a set of mixed or conflicting agendas. Given the recent phenomenal flow of pop culture products between Japan and Hong Kong, in both directions, it's not surprising that prominent HK filmmakers like Lee Chi-ngai find themselves working on Japanese-financed films like Sleepless Town (others include The Christ of Nanjing (1996), Kitchen (1997), and Moonlight Express (1998)). The Hong Kong film industry, mired in financial crisis for several years now, has looked to several alternative strategies for survival: idiosyncratic, ultra-low budget films that are quick to produce, and less risky if they lose money ( Made in Hong Kong (1997), 9413 (1998), Love Will Tear Us Apart (1999), The Accident (1999)) massive high-concept and high-budget spectaculars that aim to fill the SAR's theaters again ( Stormriders (1998), and A Man Called Hero (1999)) and coproductions, with the mainland, European investors, or East Asian partners who still have money to spend. Xiao Lian/Sato NatsumiĪlso starring :Seijun Suzuki, Toshiya Nagasawa, Kippei Shiina, Shosuke Tanihara, Producers: Masato Hara Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (exec. ![]() Information collected is aggregated and anonymous.Screenplay: Lee Chi-ngai Seishu Hase (novel These cookies enable us to provide better services based on how users use our website, and allow us to improve our features to deliver better user experience. Marketing Cookies are placed by third-party providers with our permission, and any information collected may be shared with other organizations such as publishers or advertisers. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. We use the information collected to evaluate and improve the performance of your shopping experience. They also enable use of the Shopping Cart and Checkout processes, assist in regulatory and security issues, measure traffic and visits, and retrieve order information for affiliate commissions. These cookies are required to use core website features and are automatically enabled when you use the site. You can use this interface to enable or disable sets of cookies with varying functions. We use data cookies to store your online preferences and collect information. Winner of Best Cinematography (Arthur Wong) and Best Production Design (Taneda Youhei) at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards, the darkly romantic crime thriller co-stars Taiwan actor Lung Sihung, Hong Kong stars Eric Tsang and Kathy Chow, Japanese actor Tanihara Shosuke and filmmaker Suzuki Seijun. As he falls for Sato Natsumi (Yamamoto Mirai, Who Am I?), the mysterious girl who holds the key to finding Fuchun, Kenichi is thrown into an intricate web of love, lies, and betrayal in his desperate struggle for survival in the merciless underworld. He gets embroiled in a brewing gang war when his former associate Wu Fuchun (Shiina Kippei) runs off after killing a man from the Shanghai triad. Set in the famous Kabukicho of Tokyo, the Japan-Hong Kong co-production follows the lone wolf Ryu Kenichi (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a rootless half-Chinese who trades stolen goods for a living in Kabukicho. Asian superstar Takeshi Kaneshiro toplines Lost and Found director Lee Chi Ngai's film adaptation of Japanese writer Hase Seishu's best-selling noir novel Fuyajo, a.k.a. ![]()
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