Detective Chinatown

Synopsis: After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case.
Director(s): Sicheng Chen
Production: mm2 Entertainment
  3 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Year:
2015
136 min
$435,718
406 Views


1

Qin Feng, why do you want to get

into the Criminal Police College?

Is it so hard to answer?

You can try again next year.

It's no big deal.

I bought you the plane ticket for

a one-week vacation in Thailand.

He will receive you.

He is your great-aunt's

husband's cousin's wife's nephew.

A distant uncle. The number one

detective of Chinatown, Tang Ren.

Time is gone with the wind.

The past is past.

We are childhood sweetheart...

What? Grandma Wang's son

has gone missing?

It's such an important case.

I'll totally take it.

Get out of the car.

The gold is not here.

- Are you sure?

We have searched everywhere.

No sign of it.

Sir, Kon Tai is here.

Thank you, Huang.

- What for?

For protecting

the crime scene for me.

Are you on drugs?

This is my precinct,

so the case is mine.

I have been on it for 3 months

and almost solved it.

Now the gold is gone,

and the suspect is dead.

And you tell me this is your case?

- My precinct, my case.

Come again?

- You've got a problem with that?

Don't make me punch you!

- I'll sue you for that.

You've got a problem with that?

Suspected murder weapon.

Check for finger prints.

- Check for finger prints.

Check for other entrances.

- Check for other entrances.

Pull the security footages outside

the house and send to my office.

Pull the security footages outside

the house and send to my office.

Don't you repeat my words again!

- Don't you repeat my words again!

I win!

- Tang Ren, some dumb luck.

You have somewhere else to go?

- Don't leave right after you win.

Leave? I have an azure dragon

drinking on the left...

...and a white tiger

tail-whipping on the right.

Put sand in your pocket

and the money follows.

Sit in front of a tree and

God of Wealth will come.

I'm going to win everything on you

including all your clothes.

Not you.

Autopsy report.

It's mine!

What are you looking at?

What are you doing here?

You think you are in

a gangster movie?

You two,

come to the conference room.

Come on.

- Come on.

The victim Sompat, 37-year-old

male, owner of Sompat Workshop.

The suspect of

the gold robbery in Chinatown.

The cause of death is

blunt head trauma.

Eleven fatal wounds

on the back of head.

According to the wound edges,

the murderer is a mid-aged male.

The murder weapon

is this iron vajra.

I can't believe

he killed him with this.

What about the finger prints?

- We are processing it.

Yes.

- The entrance?

No other access to the workshop

other than the front door.

Yes, yes, yes.

- Locked room murder.

I have pulled all the video

footages near Sompat Workshop.

There are four cameras

outside the front door.

The footages are automatically

overwritten every seven days.

We have the footages.

- Yes.

What about the gold?

- It's gone.

I assume that Sompat's partners

killed him and took the gold.

Yes.

You all know that

Mr. Yan owns the gold.

Even the mayor called me for this.

I feel a lot of pressure.

The one who nabs the suspect

and gets the gold back...

...will be the deputy chief.

Yes, sir.

Tang Ren, you have lost your mojo.

- It doesn't make sense.

Come on.

Hello!

- Tang, when will you be here?

Qin Feng.

Welcome to Thailand.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

You know I'm a famous detective,

and have a lot on my plate.

I was on a big case just now.

Are you a mute?

- I am...

Not a mute, but a stutterer.

Forget about the college. After

a few happy days in Thailand...

...you will even forget

your grandma.

Bangkok is the most interesting

place in the whole world...

...and the paradise for guys.

Tai, you're late.

- I was on a case.

What's going on?

- Nothing.

Where is your relative?

- There he is.

He doesn't look like you.

- Not as cute as me, right?

He is my boss.

Tai from the Chinatown Police.

Just have fun. It's all on me.

Don't worry.

I won't tell your grandma.

How old are you?

Are you still a virgin?

You are into men? Transsexuals?

He has been stressed out at home.

Drink! You can count on me

for the next few days.

I'll make it

a life-enhancing trip for you.

Cheers!

Cheers! You are in Bangkok.

Yours is laced too?

You drank mine?

Mine is even spicier!

Quiet!

How can you do something like this

at such a young age?

I didn't...

- What? You didn't have enough?

You know,

it is hot water this time.

It will be sulfuric acid

next time.

Who are you?

- I'm his...

Cousin. He is my cousin brother.

Do you know who is this...

...noble and kind girl

peeped by you?

She is my landlady.

The most beautiful girl

in Chinatown.

Xiang

He is your cousin?

As cute as me, right?

No, as horny as you.

Tang Ren, play Mahjong with us.

You have to wait for another week.

I'm completely booked.

Uncle Xiang, morning.

- Who is he?

My cousin.

Chun, they've grown bigger.

Nasty boy.

Come around for tea sometime.

Remember.

Don't you ever call me uncle

Why?

- Stop asking me why.

They think I'm born in the 90s.

- So what should I call you?

Call me Tang.

- And what do you call me?

Qin. I have made you

a schedule for the week.

Menam River, floating market,

transsexual show, Wat Arun.

We'll visit the most scenic spot

in Thailand, the Grand Palace.

I want to see the Siamese Twin.

- What?

Ellery Queen.

The detective fiction.

Your grandma told me that

you are into...

...all the freaky stuff.

- Not freaky.

The novels and movie

are to fool kids like you.

If you want to be a detective,

let's solve a missing person case.

Do you want it like this?

- Exactly like this.

Lend me some money.

I'll pay you back soon.

Surprise!

Grandma Wang, I found your son.

Ban Ban.

Ban Ban.

Why does it look different?

- It has been starving.

It will recover

in a couple of days.

It doesn't recognise me.

He does now. See?

Thanks.

Grandma Wang, I'm on a big case.

I have to go now.

Un...

Tang, this is fraud.

- What do you know?

I care about the mental health

of elderly people.

As long as the dog

makes her happy.

Here you are.

This is your so-called case?

Be patient. I'll take you to

solve a crime now.

This one.

What do you think?

- So...

So pretty?

- So ugly.

What do you know?

Qiang, give me some discount.

- Forty percent.

Lend me some more.

- What?

I'll pay you back soon.

I thought you were

going to take me...

It's for the case.

Come on, come on.

What are you doing?

Why are you being so grumpy?

Where are you going?

I hate liars.

- How did I lie to you?

You are a detective?

- Absolutely.

You bought the necklace

to solve a case?

Of course.

- It's not a birthday gift...

...for your landlady?

- How do you know that?

You were late to pick me up

because you were playing mahjong.

How did you know that?

Strong smell of cigarettes,

bloodshot eyes...

...and dirt in your fingernails,

especially your right hand.

Your left hand was stained,

but you are a right-handed smoker.

Your right trouser leg was dirtier

and they were both worn out.

All these signs lead to one thing,

playing mahjong.

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