What's Up Connection (1990)

09/15/1990 (HK) • 2h

Comedy, Drama

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.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

japan

hacker

globalization

language barrier

eccentric

hong kong

gender

counterfeiting

land developer

tourism

social comedy

punk

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