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ComedyMysteryAction

Detective Chinatown 1900

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In 1900, a white woman was murdered in Chinatown in San Francisco, and the suspect was a Chinese man. The murder caused social shock, and people demanded the closure of Chinatown.

Release Date : 2025-01-29

Language :MandarinEnglishNavajo

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : As One ProductionTianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture MediaShanghai Ruyi Film & TV Production北京乐开花影业有限公司China Film Group CorporationWanda Pictures

Production Country : ChinaHong Kong

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Wang Baoqiang

Character Name : Ghost / Ah Gui

Original Name : 王宝强

Gender : Male

Liu Haoran

Character Name : Qin Fu

Original Name : 刘昊然

Gender : Male

Chow Yun-Fat

Character Name : Bai Xuanling

Original Name : 周潤發

Gender : Male

White-K

Character Name : Zheng Shiliang

Original Name : 白客

Gender : Male

Zhang Xincheng

Character Name : Bai Zhenbang

Original Name : 張新成

Gender : Male

Yue Yunpeng

Character Name : Fei Yanggu

Original Name : Yunpeng Yue

Gender : Male

John Cusack

Character Name : Grant

Original Name : John Cusack

Gender : Male

Tai Bo

Character Name : Uncle Si

Original Name : 太保

Gender : Male

Yutian Wang

Character Name : Ren Wu

Original Name : Yutian Wang

Gender : Male

Zhang Aoyue

Character Name : Ren Liu

Original Name : Zhang Aoyue

Gender : Male

Scotty Cox

Character Name : Mr.Weiman

Original Name : Scotty Cox

Gender : Male

Sam Hayden-Smith

Character Name : Lance

Original Name : Sam Hayden-Smith

Gender : Male

Sean Kohnke

Character Name : Marston

Original Name : Sean Kohnke

Gender : Male

AJ Donnelly

Character Name : Thomas Lewis

Original Name : AJ Donnelly

Gender : Male

Wei Xiang

Character Name : Jin Lingfu

Original Name : 魏翔

Gender : Male

Yin Zheng

Character Name : Cheif Fengma (Crazy Horse)

Original Name : 尹正

Gender : Male

Ana

Character Name : Alice

Original Name : Ana

Gender : Female

Xi Meijuan

Character Name : Empress Dowager Cixi

Original Name : Xi Meijuan

Gender : Female

Li Chengru

Character Name :

Original Name : 李成儒

Gender : Male

Xiao Shenyang

Character Name : Chinatown Swindler

Original Name : Xiao Shenyang

Gender : Male

Joyce Feng

Character Name : Ghost's mother

Original Name : Joyce Feng

Gender : Female

Sang Ping

Character Name :

Original Name : Sang Ping

Gender : Male

Cao Rui

Character Name :

Original Name : Cao Rui

Gender : Male

Wang Hao

Character Name :

Original Name : 王皓

Gender : Male

Chen Chuang

Character Name :

Original Name : Chen Chuang

Gender : Male

Jiang Yi

Character Name :

Original Name : 蒋易

Gender : Male

Vanda Margraf

Character Name : Princess Dada

Original Name : Vanda Lee

Gender : Female

Pierre Bourdaud

Character Name : Irish Goon

Original Name : Pierre Bourdaud

Gender : Male

Darren Grosvenor

Character Name : Senator Bruce

Original Name : Darren Grosvenor

Gender : Male

Eric Heise

Character Name : Mayor George William

Original Name : Eric Heise

Gender : Male

Temur Mamisashvili

Character Name : Gang Leader

Original Name : Temur Mamisashvili

Gender : Male

Andrew Charles Stokes

Character Name : Sherlock Holmes

Original Name : Andrew Charles Stokes

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2025-02-01

At times this is actually quite a fun spoof along the lines of "Sherlock Holmes" meets "Charlie Chan" by way of "High Noon" but for the most part it's a mess of a film that goes on for far too long. With the Manchu court facing the great powers we saw in "55 Days at Peking" (1963) the Empress Dowager dispatches her finest officer to San Francisco to track down a traitor. As it happens, the Holmesian "Fu" (Haoran Liu) is also in that very city on a quest for the killer of the daughter of senator "Grant" (John Cusack). Quite swiftly his investigation and the imperial mission start to overlap as the enthusiastic "Fu" and his newfound spiritual Indian guide "Gui" (Baoqiang Wang) discover that the prime suspect in the killing (Steven Zhang) is the son of local entrepreneur "Bai" (Chow Yun-Fat) and that the senator is using this to stir anti-Chinese sentiment to the point where he can force them out and seize their property. What now ensues delivers a series of rather randomly assembled escapades that mix murder mystery with western with romance and add a good dose of skullduggery to boot as they try to prove the young "Bai" was framed. Fu and Wang make for a decent enough double act at times, but the story loses it's way way too often and after a while the characterisations - especially "Bai" and "Grant" become light-weight and strained parodies. Fortunately, after about two hours, auteur Sicheng Chen must have felt he was running out of file space and so decided he'd better wrap things up - and for that last quarter of an hour the story knits together things we knew with things we didn't and presents us with a rather feeble denouement that did sort of suggest that there could be more adventures to come for the likeable "Gui" and "Fu". What is potent is the closing statement from the elder "Bai" about remembering the importance of immigrant labour in establishing a country that was all too quick to shun that working community later when it suited it, but it's made in a cack-handed and over-the-top fashion and drowned out by an overpowering score and thus loses much of an impact that might actually resonate in an USA that's still unsure how to recognise those who do/did the work but perhaps didn't all have the same/right skin colour or paperwork. It has it's moments, just nowhere near enough of them.