{"product_id":"814456026114","title":"What's up Connection (Blu-ray)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Hong Kong teenager Chi Gau Shin (Tse Wai Kit, School on Fire) wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from the secluded fishing village of Po Toi O to Tokyo, by way of Kamagasaki – the so-called slums of Osaka. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide named Kumi and the shapeshifting, loud-mouthed and loveable thief Akane. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, Gau Shin finds his family of resourceful counterfeiters on the verge of expropriation. 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!\n\u003cbr\u003eMasashi Yamamoto one-ups Robinson's Garden (1987) with the go-for-broke ambition of What's Up Connection: a rare bilingual Japan-Hong Kong coproduction that unfolds as part unhinged globalization mini-epic, fringe documentary and portrait of a crazy family (the “Chi” of the Chi family a homonym for “crazy” in Cantonese). A breathless, kaleidoscopic evocation of a specific pan-Asian cultural experience as the 1990s drew near, What's Up has it all: Hongkongers looking to Japan for shopping and recreation; Japanese looking to Hong Kong for investment and opportunity – and the gangsters, hackers, thieves and Taoist priests stuck in-between it all. Scored by avant-garde trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, here is a lively film that bursts at the seams with possibility and brings Yamamoto’s project – of capturing beauty and resilience in the margins of capital – to its maximalist apex. ★ An Interview With Director Masashi Yamamoto, Part II (22MIN, 2022) \n\u003cbr\u003e★ Interview With critic and filmmaker Shu Kei (14MINS, 2022)\n\u003cbr\u003e★ Interview With Actor Tse Wai Kit \u0026amp; Priduction Manager Bill Yip (17MINS, 2022)\n\u003cbr\u003e★ Interview With Assitant Director Michael Wong (9MINS, 2022) \n\u003cbr\u003e★Booklet With New Writing By Cheng Yu Shing \n\u003cbr\u003e★ Nova Alpha Credit Card* \n\u003cbr\u003e★ Japanese Theatrical Trailer \n\u003cbr\u003e★ Optional English Subtitles \n\u003cbr\u003e★ Optional Chinese Subtitles \n\u003cbr\u003e★ New Cover Art by Connor Willumsen\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema 1 Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895611387983,"sku":"814456026114","price":41.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/2787\/5407\/files\/814456026114_f65886f7-f70c-4995-8760-4e8db636334c.jpg?v=1773845336","url":"https:\/\/cinema1.ca\/products\/814456026114","provider":"Cinema 1 Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}