/qWoRrs2Pk3ZCnyn866O3NluDIj7.jpg

What's Up Connection (1990)

Genre : Comedy, Drama

Runtime : 2H 0M

Director : Masashi Yamamoto
Writer : Masashi Yamamoto, Isamu Uno

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Reiko Arai
Reiko Arai
Tse Wai-Kit
Tse Wai-Kit
Li Cheong
Li Cheong
Chui Kwong Lam
Chui Kwong Lam
Tuen
Tuen
Michiko Suzuki
Michiko Suzuki
Tsang Mei Kie
Tsang Mei Kie
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo
Hideo Murota
Hideo Murota
Cheung Wing-Kwan
Cheung Wing-Kwan
Lee Wai Lam
Lee Wai Lam
Chan Leung-Shing
Chan Leung-Shing
Takako Noda
Takako Noda
Wonder Woo
Wonder Woo
Ho Pak-Kwong
Ho Pak-Kwong
Grandpa
Zenji Ono
Zenji Ono
W.S. Pang
W.S. Pang
Yoko Shinfune
Yoko Shinfune
Hiroko Matsui
Hiroko Matsui
Bob Moore
Bob Moore
Steve Burton
Steve Burton
Kanji Okumura
Kanji Okumura
Rumi Ôtori
Rumi Ôtori
Kurt Wetzel
Kurt Wetzel

Crews

Masashi Yamamoto
Masashi Yamamoto
Director
Nobuhiro Suwa
Nobuhiro Suwa
Assistant Director
Masashi Yamamoto
Masashi Yamamoto
Screenplay
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo
Original Music Composer
Masashi Yamamoto
Masashi Yamamoto
Producer
Isamu Uno
Isamu Uno
Screenplay
Chikako Fukuda
Chikako Fukuda
Editor
Yuji Hayashida
Yuji Hayashida
Art Direction
Hiroshi Arahata
Hiroshi Arahata
Sound Director
Julia Chu
Julia Chu
Production Manager
Binbun Furusawa
Binbun Furusawa
Production Manager
Masanari Tamai
Masanari Tamai
Director of Photography
Michael Wong
Michael Wong
Assistant Director
Bill Yip Kim-Fung
Bill Yip Kim-Fung
Production Coordinator
Toru Kataoka
Toru Kataoka
Second Assistant Director
Silver Cheung
Silver Cheung
Assistant Art Director
Taku Kageyama
Taku Kageyama
Assistant Art Director
Noriko Kitamura
Noriko Kitamura
Assistant Art Director
Thomas Wong
Thomas Wong
Assistant Art Director
Lam Foon
Lam Foon
Makeup Artist

Trailers and other movies

[Official Trailer] What's Up Connection

Posters and backgrounds

/qWoRrs2Pk3ZCnyn866O3NluDIj7.jpg
/jcxrHkuSHvbgKBtoeBvWxY1TgDE.jpg
/4MVVnXkupuD6MVyKxWCOjKwtnPS.jpg

Similar

The Million Eyes of Sumuru
Sumuru is a beautiful but evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army eliminate male leaders and replace them with her female agents.
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
The Heroine
Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.
Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Cencoroll
A giant monster sends a town's citizens into a panic, except for a girl named Yuki and her schoolmate Tetsu. Tetsu happens to have his own strange creature named Cenco as a pet. Another boy named Shuu controls the monster threatening the town, and the stage is set for a battle.
Ju-on: White Ghost
The spiteful ghosts of an abused girl and her grandmother, both mercilessly murdered, return to haunt and take victims under their grudge.
Charlie & Boots
Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
Chinese Box
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Linda Linda Linda
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life.
Air: The Motion Picture
A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
Journey of Honor
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla has survived to menace Japan leaving Kiryu as the nation's only defense.
Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.