Shinjuku Incident Page #5

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
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Tung-Shing Yee
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
R
Year:
2009
119 min
Website
195 Views


We old immigrants will

count on you from now.

Come... Come... Come...

Let's have a drink, thanks...

Steelhead-san.

This gift is from the head of Eguchi clan.

He wishes you prosperous business.

Thank you.

Here, take this inside.

Is this protection fee?

This stops from next month.

But it's the tradition.

Yes, yes!

It's unfair to you all.

We've all crossed the seas to get here.

Making it alive wasn't easy.

We should work together.

How can I take advantage of my own people?

Besides.

In future, when my brothers do business in

Kabuki-cho.

Running a noodle shop or Chinese restaurant.

They will still need your help.

Then...

What happens when there's trouble?

What trouble?

There are lots of drunken louts here.

Can't you call the cops?

No, they're always gang members.

Our licenses will be

affected if there's trouble.

True? Right?

Brother, Kabuki-cho lives

by one law in the day.

And another by night.

If you don't take this money.

It will incite more fights

when others find out.

I'll take it for now.

We'll treat it as a loan.

When I make a profit, I will return it.

No... No need to return.

You have your work cut out for you.

For instance, improve the safety here.

And don't let the young ones sell drugs.

Thank you, big brother.

Thank you... We'll take our leave.

See you...

Thank you, big brother...

Thank you.

Jie.

You've finally made it.

I hope you can forget the past.

Jie... Jie, what are you doing? Let go...

Jie... Jie, let go!

How could you?

Let's go... Let's go.

Go quickly... Jie... Jie...

Don't push me! Are you on his side or mine?

Steelhead...

Hey Jie, what are you doing?

What? You want to hit me?

Calm down.

You can only win if you love a good fight.

Come... Bottom's up.

The old wine from home is still best.

Ganbei! Steelhead.

We wouldn't be here without you.

What are you saying!

Don't fight, let's drink to Steelhead!

Steelhead, to you!

We have achieved some results today.

But we all know in our hearts.

This was achieved through illegal means.

We can't do that in the long-term.

I opened this Kabushiki Gaisha.

Because I wanted us to

have a legal business.

To run an entertainment club on the lowest

rent.

A licensed one, not illegal.

And, to grab the control of the Taiwan gang.

So that we can protect ourselves.

We hear you, Steelhead.

We'll follow your lead.

We have all suffered.

That's why I want to set aside some money.

To help those who have just arrived. Help

them find jobs.

I want this responsibility to go to...

How about to Jie?

Everyone OK?

Good!

Then I would like to do something that

interests me.

In future, the business here will go to...

...it's yours, Hong Kong Boy.

I'm not sure if I can.

You'll have Tai Bo and Hu, they have

experience.

Try it out.

Remember, be united!

Jie, any problems?

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

A toast to Steelhead, cheers!

Come... Come, drink.

Steelhead.

We're tired, we're going to go.

OK, go on then.

Congratulations, you finally made it.

What do you mean?

I want to see if you are illegal.

So you finally got it.

You owe me one.

I let you go once, the debt is paid.

Just once? That's worth a life?

Half the debt then?

OK, half!

I hope you can be a good man.

Because I don't want to...

...come after you one day.

That'd be just great!

One, two, three.

You have more grey hair.

I'm forty something!

Finding me old?

In your heart.

What's the most important thing in life?

That's a loaded question.

Man's most original wants...

...were for food and shelter.

But when we see what we don't have...

...our desires grow.

Xiu Xiu, what are you looking at? Why so

many people?

Look... There's a fridge, and a color TV

Go back Let's just take a look.

You'll break the windows! Go home!

Let's go... Don't look, it's no big deal.

Look at her! Let's go... Come on.

I want to find a job out there one day.

Don't go, you'll never come back.

Why do you say that?

Because the city is vibrant.

It's colorful, and different from here.

If you go, you won't want to return.

You're wrong Are you sure?

You're wrong I'm dead right.

Since becoming a wife and mother.

I know what I value in life.

You have to learn to be content.

When people have been oppressed...

...or when they have certain demands.

When they have established a force.

That force evolves into power.

Mobs have historically

been formed like this.

Unfortunately, power changes people.

From passive and tolerant, they begin to get

aggressive.

They lose control of themselves.

More than 1.5m foreigners living in Japan.

What a broken and dirty place!

How can anyone live here?

What are you saying? I used to live here!

It's smelly!

Wasn't this cooked by my mother?

She's been dead so many

years, and it's still here!

Damn it.

Where's that bastard Tai Bo?

Here, here.

Why's the place so run down?

Stop shouting.

We're businessmen now.

Cut the crap! Where's the stuff?

Come, have a look.

One kilo, the money?

You only deliver once a week.

How am I going to make money?

Cops have been clamping down, there's not

enough goods.

Just add some ketamine, you'll be high in no

time.

Shizuko, I just bought a convertible.

I want to take you for a spin.

I'm busy.

Is it because of this?

I've already gone for laser treatments.

It will disappear soon.

I guarantee it will disappear!

What's going on?

It's... A friend.

Friend? When did I become a friend?

If we're friends, how come

you can't even look at me?

What's your problem?

What are you looking at?

It's very cute.

Stop, don't hit him!

What?

What's up?

Don't aggravate him.

Go in for a drink, OK?

Let's all go in!

What are you guys up to?

How can you let foreigners trample all over

your turf?

Eguchi brought them in.

Why didn't you question Eguchi?

He's the boss. I have no such right.

Eguchi, let me ask you something.

Master, what's the matter?

Who are those Chinese people?

It's better if they take

care of certain things.

It's OK to use them.

But you can't let them build up power.

They're just our chess pieces.

It's OK to have chess pieces.

You can't let your own people suffer.

I will be honest with you.

That's my plan exactly.

I want to use them to take care of Kyohei.

Master.

I think Sanwa-kai needs to re-organise.

About that...

Let's talk later.

Don't be too conspicuous, understand?

Definitely, sorry to trouble you!

Damn it!

Ruled by ambition.

Time to let him go.

Can you do it?

Come in!

Kitano-san.

Have some tea.

Very fragrant.

It's the best oolong tea.

Hard to believe that.

So much success in so short a time.

It's just a small business.

This is not small.

Roppongi, Aoyama and

Shibuya, all yours now.

It's not small!

These are papers on Toka Shouji Trading

Company.

Police already ID-ed you as Katou-gumi.

The biggest foreign gang in Japan.

You must be mistaken.

You even dare sell drugs.

If you have proof, arrest me.

What are you trying to say?

Your men must be hiding things from you.

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