

Detective Chinatown 1900
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $500.3M
- Language
- English
- san francisco, california
- chinatown
- prequel
- murder
- buddy comedy
- 1900s
- action comedy
- 20th century
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical29 Jan 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1529 Jan 2025
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+29 Jan 2025
CanadaCA
- Theatrical29 Jan 2025
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical5 Feb 2025
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1615 May 2025
BruneiBN
- Theatrical30 Jan 2025
CambodiaKH
- Theatrical26 Feb 2025
ChinaCN
- Theatrical29 Jan 2025
- Digital / OTT30 Apr 2025
FranceFR
- Theatrical1 Feb 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical30 Jan 2025
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIIB13 Feb 2025
- PhysicalBlu-ray11 Jul 2025
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Detective Chinatown 1900 was released on 29 January 2025.
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CinemaSerf
2/1/2025
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 Holmesian "Fu" (Haoran Liu)…
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