Sleepless Town (1998)

Profile

• Movie: Sleepless Town
• Chinese: 不夜城 (Fuyajo)

• Director: Chi-Ngai Lee
• Writer: Seishu Hase (novel), Chi-Ngai Lee, Hisashi Nozawa
• Producer: Masato Hara, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa
• Cinematographer: Arthur Wong
• Release Date: June 27, 1998
• Runtime: 122 min.
• Language: Japanese, Mandarin
• Country: China, Japan

Plot

Kenichi Ryuu is an ex-gangster who’s now eking out an existence as a dealer of stolen goods. His past inevitably catches up with him, however, as the area in which in lives happens to be a melting pot of gangland activity, with rival factions from Beijing, Shanghai and Taiwan (his former employees) all after a slice of the action. When the left-hand man of the one of the bosses turns up dead, Kaneshiro is given three days to find the killer and has only a mysterious girlfriend with femme fatale written all over her as a means of access