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What's Up Connection

Original Title: てなもんやコネクション

1990
2h 2m
Comedy
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1990

Runtime

2h 2m

Storyline

When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
2h 2m
Sep 15, 1990
Languages
Cantonese
English
Japanese
Russian
Director
Masashi Yamamoto
Masashi Yamamoto
Production
Lay Line Inc.
Lay Line Inc.
Production Countries
Hong Kong
Japan

Top Cast

24 Cast Members

Reiko Arai

Tse Wai-Kit

Li Cheong

Chui Kwong Lam

Tuen

Michiko Suzuki

Tsang Mei Kie

Toshinori Kondo

Toshinori Kondo

Hideo Murota

Hideo Murota

Cheung Wing-Kwan

Lee Wai Lam

Chan Leung-Shing

Takako Noda

Wonder Woo

Ho Pak-Kwong

Ho Pak-Kwong

Grandpa

Zenji Ono

W.S. Pang

Yoko Shinfune

Hiroko Matsui

Bob Moore

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