Sleepless Town (1998)

To the round-eyed visitor, the Shinjuku section of Tokyo appears to be a teeming neighborhood of nightclubs and neon vice where the occasional Western tourist stands out in tall, pale relief to a solid field of Japanese businessmen. There is, however, an underside to this sector of flashy entertainment, a secret reality exposed during the dangerous love story that propels Sleepless Town (1998). Ethnic rivalries come into play as ruthlessly ambitious Chinese and Korean operators battle for control of lucrative rackets in an endless turf war that rages from dusk to dawn on the seamy and slippery streets of Sleepless Town.