In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic from a northen countryside in China nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan), enters Japan illegally in search of his fiancée, Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei). Steelhead and a bunch of other illegal immigrants came by a freighter that incidentally sunk before reaching the harbor. A local Japanese policeman discovered them and all the immigrants ran for their lives. Steelhead managed to steal some dry clothes and tracked down his brother Jie (Daniel Wu) for help. Jie helped provide food and shelter for Steelhead while looking for a job in between searching for Xiu Xiu. Jie introduced fellow Chinese immigrants and each of them helped Steelhead by showing him trades of the underworld to survive and make a living.
While working in a underground sewer to clear out garbage, Steelhead and the rest of his Chinese friends were held up by the Japanese police. Inspector Kitano was talking to Steelhead with his rough Mandarin when all the workers ran for it. Kitano attempted to arrest Steelhead, only to fall into a large sewage drain. Steelhead couldn’t let him drown, he rescued Inspector Kitano and fled the scene. Steelhead later found temporary work as a dishwasher. While washing dishes, he rescues a Chinese woman named Lily from a bunch of thieves. Lily thanks him and welcomes him to her bar, Zanaku, if he ever needed a place to relieve his sorrows.
Sometime later, while working in a restaurant with Jie, Steelhead spots Xiu Xiu as the woman of Yakuza leader Mr. Eguchi (Masaya Kato). Sadden by the fact his fiancée has left him, he spends the night with Jie, drinking and sleeping with hookers to cope. After sobering from his experience, he decided to take charge with his life by making himself a legal citizen of Japan. He approached his fellow Chinese friends to make an aggressive campaign by selling phone cards and stealing A-grade products for underground sales. After making good money, they moved onto rigging a Pachinko machine to release more balls in order to trade the gifts for cash.
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