I went to see a movie called "Shinjuku Incident." It's a project of Jackie Chan's, but it's not so much an action movie per se, more of a noir, violent drama. It's set among the Chinese illegal immigrant communities in Japan in the 1990's, and the dialogue is about 75% Chinese, 25% Japanese. Watching it with Korean subtitles made it into an Asian language soup. I obviously didn't understand a great deal, but as is my tendency, I enjoyed trying to sort out the languages. The ending was funny: the Jackie Chan Chinese immigrant-gangster character is dying, floating away in a storm sewer, and says something profound — last words and all that. The Japanese policeman character says something to the effect of, "what?! I can't understand what you're saying!" So the last words are unknown to the one witness of them. My sentiments, exactly.