Sleepless Town

Name: Sleepless Town
Director: Lee Chi-Ngai
Released: 1998
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mirai Yamamoto, Kippei Shîna, Sihung Lung, Eric Tsang

1998 · 122 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 756 VOTES · DIR. Lee Chi-Ngai

Overview

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,672 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:17 Alien registration card...

00:09:02 The boss wants to see you

00:13:48 Don't you want to talk to me

00:16:47 in Hongkong...

00:20:05 What have you got to lose?

00:24:23 What was Natsumi like?

00:30:20 How did you hear about me?

00:34:20 He never said

00:38:34 hand Fu-chun

00:42:44 He's never been

00:46:23 That's different

00:50:24 You don't have to call me

00:57:26 You know why I had to leave

01:01:55 A nightmare

01:07:39 We'd steal credit cards and

01:11:35 Looks like fun

01:17:40 Happy Valentine's

01:24:01 Until then...

01:27:52 Her family calls her

01:33:14 We can't go back now

01:40:11 We'll give him

01:47:13 Yuan Cheng-gui

01:50:22 Mr Ye and Qian-bo

01:53:32 Go on, Xiao-lian, Shoot

Cast & Characters

Takeshi Kaneshiro Kenichi Ryuu Mirai Yamamoto Natsumi Sato Kippei Shîna Wu Fu-chun Sihung Lung Yang Weimin Eric Tsang Yuan Chenggui Kathy Chow Xiu Hong Seijun Suzuki Seishu Hase Hiroko Hori Akira Inoue

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,672

Dialogue density13.7 lines / min

First line00:01:17

Final line01:53:32

Production Record

DirectorLee Chi-Ngai

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes756