Jackie Chan's Brutal 'Shinjuku Incident' Trailer

I was weened on the martial arts movies of Jackie Chan. The first one I remember seeing was The Big Brawl, alternately titled Battle Creek Brawl, and I saw it as a kid on HBO back in probably 1982 or something. It was Chan's first attempt to become a star in the U.S. The movie was filmed here, it was in English, and despite some of Chan's most theatrical choreography - and perhaps because outside of that choreography, it's not very special - the movie was a stiff at the box office, keeping him most out of American cinemas for 15 years. By the time most U.S. audiences got to know Jackie, he had been declawed. Granted, he was never the most aggressive action star in the world, even if his stunts were. Certainly, to my knowledge, he's never made a movie as in your face as Shinjuku Incident appears to be. Jackie's taking on the Yakuza in this movie, and he appears to be dropping guys with gunshots to the head. I don't recall him ever doing that, even in Police Story. So it's certainly gritty, as you can see in the trailer. As we told you last week, Chan and the film's director have already deemed this too violent for Chinese audiences. Take notice, John Woo... There's no U.S. release date yet, but I'm fairly certain this is one Chan export we will be getting theatrically. I think curiosity will be stronger for this among his fans than anything he's done in a decade.