Dog Race

Overview

Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 26, 1998

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Momoko Nishida,Li Tao,Ryo Iwamatsu,Goro Kishitani,Makoto Togashi,Houka Kinoshita,Jun Kunimura,Teruyuki Kagawa,Hideo Sakaki,Moeko Ezawaand 2 more

Director

Yōichi Sai

Writer

Yōichi Sai,Wishing Chong,Shōichi Maruyama

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0416863