Detective Chinatown 1900

2025 135 min ★ 6.3 Comedy, Mystery, Action

In 1900, the mysterious murder of a white woman and a Native American man in San Francisco's Chinatown triggers a race against time as the Chinese suspect and the Native American's adopted Chinese son work to uncover the truth while a politician seeks to leverage the Chinese Exclusion Bill as well as the prevailing xenophobia and racism to close down Chinatown and elect himself as the mayor.

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Cast

Wang Baoqiang

Ah Gui

Liu Haoran

Qin Fu

Chow Yun-Fat

Bai Xuanling

White-K

Zheng Shiliang

Zhang Xincheng

Bai Zhenbang

Yue Yunpeng

Fei Yanggu

John Cusack

Grant

Tai Bo

Uncle Si

Wang Yutian

Ren Wu

Zhang Aoyue

Ren Liu

Details

Director

Chen Sicheng

Status

Released

Original Language

ZH

Revenue

$500,282,092

Production

As One Production, Tianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture Media 天津猫眼微影文化传媒, Shanghai Ruyi Film & TV Production 上海儒意影视制作, 北京乐开花影业有限公司, Wanda Pictures, China Film Group Corporation

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

February 1, 2025

★ 6/10

At times this is actually quite a fun spoof along the lines of "Sherlock Holmes" meets "Charlie Chan" by way of "High Noon" but for the most part it's a mess of a film that goes on for far too long. With the Manchu court facing the great powers we saw in "55 Days at Peking" (1963) the Empress Dowager dispatches her finest officer to San Francisco to track down a traitor. As it happens, the Holmesi...