''Fuyajo'' (), also known as ''Sleepless Town'', is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

- Japanese film co-production released in 1998 based on a novel by

Hase Seishū is the pen name of , a well-known Japanese novelist. He is known for writing Yakuza crime novels. His pen name is based on the Chinese name of Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow, Chow Sing-chi (周星馳), written backwards and rendered in Japane ...

. It was directed by with cinematography by Arthur Wong, who won two awards for the film.

Cast

Takeshi Kaneshiro is a Japanese-Taiwanese actor and singer. Beginning his career as a pop idol, he has since moved his focus towards the film industry, where he achieved both commercial success and critical acclaim. He has worked with directors throughout East A ...

as Kenichi Ryuu *

Mirai Yamamoto is a Japanese actress. Her father is Kansai Yamamoto. Personal life Yamamoto was born in Tokyo, Japan. She met Kippei Shiina in 1995 when they worked together on the series , and began dating him after they co-starred in the 1998 film ''Fuyaj ...

as Natsumi Sato *

Kippei Shiina is a Japanese actor. Career Shiina portrayed John Rain and co-starred in Max Mannix's '' Rain Fall'' (2009) with Gary Oldman. He starred in Takeshi Kitano's ''Outrage'' (2010). Filmography Film *''Wangan Bad Boy Blue'' (1992) *''A Night in Nud ...

as Wu Fu-chun * Sihung Lung as Yang Weimin * Eric Tsang as Yuan Chenggui * Kathy Chow as Xiu Hong

Synopsis

''Fuyajo'' is about Kenichi who struggles within the gangster world in Kabukicho. He is despised by locals as being a "fake" Japanese, as he is half

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

ese and half Japanese. He is framed for covering up for an old friend who murdered one of the bosses, then he meets that person's girlfriend Natsumi and they join as fugitives.

References

{{reflist 1998 films 1998 crime films Japanese crime films Hong Kong crime films Films set in Japan Films produced by Kazutoshi Wadakura Films scored by Shigeru Umebayashi 1990s Japanese films 1990s Hong Kong films