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Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan (53) joined local actor Sanada
Hiroyuki (46) on the red carpet for yesterday's Japan premiere
of "Rush Hour 3". Several hundred fans turned at for the event, held
at the Roppongi Hills complex in central Tokyo. Though the pair have
been friends for some 20 years, it's the first time for them to work
together. Sanada has been building up a presence in Hollywood
features in the last couple of years and is becoming more of a box
office draw. He and Chan met up at the Shanghai International Film
Festival last year and decided to do something together. "I'd like
to work with Takakura Ken, with Kitano Takeshi," said Chan. "I never
had a chance to work with Kurosawa Akira. So now when I want to work
with someone, I do it right away." He had hoped to get Sanada on
board for a new movie to be shot in Tokyo in October (provisionally
titled "Shinjuku Jiken") but was turned down due to a busy
schedule. "Rush Hour 3" opens here on August 25.

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