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What's Up Connection
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What's Up Connection

1990-09-15 · 122 min · ★ 7.0

Comedy · Drama

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.

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Directors
Masashi Yamamoto
Production companies
Lay Line Inc.
Countries
Hong Kong, Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Reiko Arai
Tse Wai-Kit
Li Cheong
Chui Kwong Lam
Tuen
Michiko Suzuki
Tsang Mei Kie
Toshinori KondoToshinori Kondo
Hideo MurotaHideo Murota
Cheung Wing-Kwan
Lee Wai Lam
Chan Leung-Shing
Takako Noda
Wonder Woo
Ho Pak-KwongHo Pak-KwongGrandpa
Zenji Ono
W.S. Pang
Yoko Shinfune
Hiroko Matsui
Bob Moore

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