What's Up Connection

What's Up Connection

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1990-09-15
Duration:122 min
Director:Masashi Yamamoto
Actors:Reiko Arai, Tse Wai-Kit, Li Cheong, Chui Kwong Lam, Tuen
Production:Lay Line Inc.

Overview:

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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