Watch This: Jackie Chan Gets Serious in ‘Shinjuki Incident’
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 9, 2009
When we think of Jackie Chan, we often think of his high-flying exercises in kung fu silliness, do we not? Movies like Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 and The Tuxedo. Elsewhere in the world however, Chan is a very serious commodity. For example, the 54-year old Hong Kong native is very big in China — with a serious action film career dating back to the early 1970s. With that in mind, it should come as almost no surprise that Chan is getting a little dramatic in his next film, the Hong Kong based Shinjuku Incident.
To give you a bit of background information, Shinjuki Incident is a film that was dubbed by its own director to be too violent for Chinese audiences, as it contains several scenes of graphic violence, including one instance where a man has his hand brutally removed from the rest of his body. In the Chinese-language film, Chan stars as a refugee who escapes to Japan and gets caught up in a local gang war between the native Japanese and a group of Chinese immigrants. Violence then ensues, naturally.
Check out the trailer for the Derek Yee directed film below, courtesy of the film’s official site. It is currently scheduled to make its debut in parts of Asia on April 2nd, with no current plans for a theatrical release in the United States or Europe.
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