Shadow of Chinatown (1936)
ジャンル : ホラー, サイエンスフィクション, 犯罪
上映時間 : 1時間 11分
演出 : Robert F. Hill
シノプシス
Feature version of the 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi. A European importing firm resorts to devious extremes to run its Chinese competition out of business.
1937年のロスアンゼルス。私立探偵ジェイクはモーレイ夫人からダム建設技師である夫の浮気調査を依頼される。だが、盗み取りした写真がなぜか新聞に掲載され、それを見たもうひとりのモーレイ夫人が現れる。実は彼女こそ本物で、名をイヴリンという。ジェイクはこれがダム建設をめぐる疑惑と関係ありと睨んで調査を開始するが、モーレイは溺死体で発見され、ジェイクもまた謎の男たちに暴行を受ける。探偵と依頼人という関係を越えはじめたイヴリンとジェイクだったが、なおも謎は深まるばかりだった……。
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
マンハッタンの超高級マンションで暮らすアリス。体調不良を崩しチャイナタウンの怪しげな診療所でもらった薬を飲むと、いつもとは違う積極的な性格になり……。ウディ・アレン流“自分探しの旅”コメディ。
When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan—who must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
極悪非道なチャイニーズ・マフィアのボス、ミスター・ウェイに家族を狙われ、命じられるままに殺しを繰返す凄腕のヒットマン、ジョン・リー。ある日、ウェイの息子が警察に射殺され、その報復としての殺しの依頼がジョンの元へ舞い込む。ターゲットはウェイの息子を射殺した刑事ではなく彼の幼い息子。しかも「刑事の目前で暗殺せよ」というこれまでにない残忍なものだった。引き金に掛けられた指を震わせ、全身を膠着させるジョン。非常なる裏社会へ身を投じながらも、心を持った殺し屋は、そのとき組織との闘いを決意する。
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.
前作から5年。再び.44マグナム・S&W M29を手に、ハリーはサンフランシスコで、自らも”駒”になった、死亡予想ゲーム“デッドプール”を元に展開する連続殺人事件に挑む。サンフランシスコ市警のハリー・キャラハン(クリント・イーストウッド)刑事は賭博王ジャネロを強引な手口で逮捕した。テレビ中継でその模様を報道されたハリーは有名人となるが、その中継をテレビで秘かに見つめる人物が「死亡予想」と書かれたリストにハリーの名を書く。一方、市警はテレビ中継の一件以来、人気者になった彼の身を案じ、護衛も兼ねた相棒に中国人の刑事クワン(エヴァン・キム)を配置させる。やがてホラー映画に出演中のロックシンガーのジョニー(ジム・キャリー)が強力な合成ヘロインを口に押し込まれ殺害される事件が起こる。現場に駆けつけたハリーは、発見者である映画監督のピーター(リーアム・ニーソン)に出会うが捜査に結びつく情報は得られない。そしてチャイナタウンのレストランで強盗事件にハリーが遭遇した際、犯人の流れ弾に当たりジョニーが出演する映画の経理を担当していた男が死亡し、その胸ポケットから「死亡予想」と書かれたリストが見つかる。リストにはジョニーや他の有名人と共にハリー自身の名前も書かれていた…。
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