Fuyajo
1998 Hong Kong-Japanese film by Lee Chi-ngai
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Fuyajo (不夜城), also known as Sleepless Town, is a drama film released in 1998, based on a novel of the same name by Hase Seishū. A Hong Kong-Japanese co-production, it was directed by Lee Chi-ngai with cinematography by Arthur Wong, who won two awards for the film.[1]
Directed byLee Chi-ngai
Screenplay by
- Hisashi Nozawa
- Lee Chi-ngai
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Produced by
- Akira Morishige
- Masato Hara
- Kazutoshi Wadakura
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| Directed by | Lee Chi-ngai |
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| Cinematography | Arthur Wong |
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| Music by | Shigeru Umebayashi |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
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Synopsis
Fuyajo is about Kenichi, a man who struggles within the gangster world in Kabukicho. He is despised by locals as being a "fake" Japanese, as he is half Taiwanese and half Japanese. He is framed for covering up for an old friend who murdered one of the bosses, then he meets that person's girlfriend Natsumi and they join together as lovers and fugitives.
Cast
- Takeshi Kaneshiro as Kenichi Ryuu
- Mirai Yamamoto as Natsumi Sato
- Kippei Shiina as Wu Fu-chun
- Sihung Lung as Yang Weimin
- Eric Tsang as Yuan Chenggui
- Kathy Chow as Xiu Hong