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Title: Mr. Long (2017)
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| Chen Chang | ... | Long | |
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Shô Aoyagi | ... | Kenji |
| Yi Ti Yao | ... | Lily | |
| Run-yin Bai | ... | Jun | |
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Masashi Arifuku | ... | Heisuke |
| Tarô Suwa | ... | Tadao | |
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Ritsuko Ohkusa | ... | Kumiko |
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Shiiko Utagawa | ... | Machiko |
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Yûsuke Fukuchi | ... | Jiang |
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Tetsuya Chiba | ... | Sakata |
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| Yasunari Takeshima | ... | Office worker | |
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A Taiwanese hit-man goes Japan to kill a man. But nothing turns out in the way he expected. He finds himself in a dumpster and with neighbors' helps he gets his own stall where he cooks delicious noodles. But his past won't leave him alone. Written by Mert Tanöz
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Mr. Long (Chen Chang) is a highly successful knife assassin working for a Taiwanese crime boss. A job in Japan goes sideways and he's forced to hide in the slums of the city to avoid capture by his would-be targets, psychotic criminals in their own right.
And from that we get one of the weirdest examples of the fact that it's not always a bad thing to straddle genre lines. Because this film goes from a straightforward Asian action blast to a nihilist drug drama to a sappy romantic comedy, and then all back again. And yes, it is jarring from time to time, but it's meant to be. Life goes from incredibly sappy to gut-wrenching sadness, and sometimes it does so with no warning whatsoever.
It also helps to have such a crew behind this genre hopping. SABU, the director, has a reputation as a storyteller of the bizarre, this film being a fine example of that. Chen Chang also shines as the silent main protagonist. Long is a man of few words, but this merely enhances his performance, affording him an aura of mystery, danger and solution.
Is the film for everyone? No, it's not. Is it a bit artsy? Kinda. Is it really good? Absolutely.