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What's Up Connection (1990)

What's Up Connection (1990)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1990, September 15
Directors: Masashi Yamamoto
Countries: Hong Kong, Japan
Production: Lay Line Inc., Lay Line Inc.
Cast: Ho Pak-Kwong

Overview:

When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, he and his family of counterfeiters discover that a multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade.

Keywords:

hacker japan hong kong language barrier eccentric tourism globalization social comedy punk gender land developer counterfeiting