Overview
Detective Chinatown 3 is a 2021 Chinese comedy mystery buddy film directed and written by Chen Sicheng, starring Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran. It is a sequel to Detective Chinatown 2 (2018) and is the third installment in the Detective Chinatown series. It was released on 12 February 2021.
The film set several box office records, including the biggest opening weekend ever in a single territory, and grossed over US$699 million, becoming the highest-grossing non-American R-rated film of all time. It is also the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2021 and the sixth-highest-grossing non-English film of all time.
Plot
After the events in Bangkok and New York, Tang Ren and Qin Feng are invited to Tokyo to investigate another crime that has occurred there, leading to a battle between the strongest detectives in Asia. The film starts with Tang and Qin on plane eating junk food and Tang needs to use the bathroom. Later, he was escorted to meet the suspected murder of the Don who stated not guilty. Following examination of the body, Tang found a needle prick in the victim's body, which was not reported in the autopsy report. Also, he used a visual stimulisor of the broken glasses and found the missing glass from the murdered Don´s car. Tang convinces the judge that Anna had committed the murder by showing the murder weapon and examining the CCTV footages. Anna was the daughter of the suspected murderer, who left her and her mother in their worst times. Driven by revenge of her mother's sufferings and death, Anna planned to make her father suffer, by making him suspect of the murder she had committed. The film ends with all the detectives from the investigation app united against Q, who turned out to be a group of individuals with high IQ, planning to destroy the established systems of the world.
Cast
Wang Baoqiang as Tang Ren
Liu Haoran as Qin Feng
Satoshi Tsumabuki as Hiroshi Noda
Tony Jaa as Jack Jaa
Masami Nagasawa as Anna Kobayashi
Tomokazu Miura as Masaru Watanabe
Tadanobu Asano as Naoki Tanaka
Shang Yuxian as Kiko
Honami Suzuki as Yoshiko Kawamaru
Shōta Sometani as Akira Murata
Cheng Xiao as Lu Jingjing
Chen Zheyuan as Kouji Noda
Zhang Zifeng as Snow
Xiao Yang as Song Yi
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