Chinese Dinner (2001)
Hoshino (Toshiro Yanagiba) is the mob-connected owner of a ritzy Chinese restaurant. One evening he’s sitting down in a lavishly appointed private room to enjoy an elaborate multicourse dinner, when he gets a call from a crooked politician of his acquaintance. A long-meditated money-laundering deal is about to bear fruit and earn him a cool 5 billion yen. The gang boss who backed him on this deal will be pleased. He is, understandably, in the mood for celebrating when an unexpected visitor (Izam) arrives — a tall, husky, mincing fellow in dreadlocks, with a gun. He is a hit man sent to whack Hoshino — but for what? The hit man neither explains nor kills; instead he sits down at the table and asks Hoshino when dinner is going to be served. Coolly, Hoshino calls in Chinese for the waitress, who enters, wearing a red, slit dress and an inscrutable expression, with the first course. The longest meal of Hoshino’s life has just begun.
Director:
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writers:
Manabu Kato, Michizô Kitô.
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Suirei as |
| Directing | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Director |
| Production | Yumi Yokoo | Producer |
| Editing | Soichi Ueno | Editor |
| Sound | Soichi Inoue | Sound Recordist |
| Writing | Manabu Kato | Screenplay |
| Art | Hisao Inagaki | Art Direction |
| Production | Susumu Nakazawa | Producer |
| Production | Norio Watanabe | Producer |
| Production | Mitsuru Itô | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Satoru Karasawa | Director of Photography |
| Production | Katsuhiko Takemasa | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Michizô Kitô | Screenplay |
| Production | Hirofumi Ogoshi | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Akira Mitake | Music |