Thursday, May 21, 2020
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Synopsis
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. While illegally emigrating to Japan,
Tietou loses his Chinese documents and so cannot return to his country.
He is welcomed by his countrymen who lodge and work in Shinjuku where
they also help him to find illegal work. 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. Later,
after an incident with his cousin, Joe, and a Taiwan gang, Tietou saves
the powerful Yakuza boss Toshinari Eguchi. He is the husband of Xiu Xiu,
who is now called Yuko and are parents of a little daughter. The
mobster offers a dirty job to Tietou; in retribution, he promises to
deliver the quarter dominated by the Taiwan gang to him. Tietou becomes
the boss of the Chinese illegal immigrants. But his peaceful methods
make him unpopular and Tietou starts to...
