Here’s a sentence we didn’t see coming today: China Lion is bringing LOBSTER COP (龙虾刑警) to Australian and New Zealand cinemas on 21 June 2018. You can check out the new trailer below.
The premise is as good as any film with that title: four cops open up a lobster restaurant as a cover for sting to catch a drug dealer. As is the law of the comedy action genre, the recipe proves to be more popular than they expected, and business starts booming. Of course, this leads them down the path of an even bigger conspiracy.
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This is the directorial debut of actress Li Xinyun, best known for her work in Beijing Flickers (2012) and more recently in Sentence Me Guilty (2015). It stars Wang Qianyuan, Yuan Shanshan, Zhou You, Zhou Yunpeng, Liu Hua, Emotion Cheung, and Shen Teng.
It joins an already impressive month of Asian releases hitting cinemas around Australia this month, including Animal World, Believer, and Happiness is Coming.
