Fuyajo

Fuyajo
Fuyajo
	Film poster
Directed by	Lee Chi-ngai
Screenplay by	Hisashi Nozawa; Lee Chi-ngai;
Based on	Fuyajō; by Hase Seishū
Produced by	Akira Morishige; Masato Hara; Kazutoshi Wadakura;
Starring	Takeshi Kaneshiro; Mirai Yamamoto; Kippei Shiina; Sihung Lung; Eric Tsang;
Cinematography	Arthur Wong
Edited by	Hiroshi Sunaga; Eric Kwong Chi-Leung;
Music by	Shigeru Umebayashi
Production; companies	Toei Company; Ace Pictures;
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	27 June 1998 (Japan);
Running time	122 minutes
Countries	Japan; Hong Kong;
Languages	Japanese; Chinese;

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 [1]Lee Chi-ngai [zh] with cinematography by Arthur Wong, who won two awards for the film.^[1]

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

References

^ "Eighteenth Hong Kong Film Awards Winners". HKFA history. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2011.

External links

Fuyajo at IMDb
Fuyajo at Rotten Tomatoes

[Hong_Kong_Film_Awards_History-1] "Eighteenth Hong Kong Film Awards Winners". HKFA history. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2011.

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