For all his hamminess and propensity to do Brett Ratner movies, Jackie Chan is still a goddamned living legend (and in his defense, he’s said he thought Rush Hour sucked too).  The director of his latest movie, The Shinjuku Incident, recently said the film won’t be released in China on account of it being too violent, leading me to believe that it’s probably awesome.   Violence = awesome.  Because movies are like sex, you see.

In any case it looks pretty good.  It’s about a Chinese guy (Chan) who goes to Japan to find his girlfriend, only to find out she’s married to a Yakuza leader (Ken Watanabe).  Some Japanese-Chinese violence ensues.  They hate each other but we can’t tell them apart.  So basically, it’s like the Israelis and Palestinians, but with Karate.
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