HONG KONG - A Hong Kong shiny blind immovable announced the Asian approved free date in favour of Jackie Chan's hot Chinese-language photograph _ but in China, where on earth its matter event may connected raise flags for the country's movie censor.
"Shinjuku Incident," which features Chan near attention of a refugee who escape to Japan and become a slayer for the horde, will be released in Hong Kong and southeast Asia by the line-up of April 2 and in Japan on May 1, Emperor Motion Pictures said in a message.
But the statement didn't announce the release date in mainland China, a switch remove market for the movie.
The film may have implicated China's censors because it touch on two certain taboo subject for Chinese films: gangster and Japan. It also cast Chan, a national god in China, as a villain.
Emperor Motion Pictures Chief Executive Albert Lee said the company requirements to release the movie in China but wouldn't approach further.
Sino-Japanese family loiter constricted because of Japan's brutal occupation of China during World War II.
The 2005 Hollywood film "Memoirs of a Geisha" be not released on the mainland on the on the surface because the analysis of Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li portray Japanese entertainer would insult viewers.
Highlighting the soreness of the extend beyond, Emperor Motion Pictures have be tightlipped a succinct circumstance ago about "Shinjuku Incident." The statement Thursday grades its elementary courteous announcement about the movie.
Earlier reports in the Chinese milieu have describe the movie as about the live of Chinese immigrant in Shinjuku, one of Japan's maximum crammed shopping and entertainment districts.
