In the 2000s, the ageing Chan grew tired of being typecast as an action hero, prompting him to act with more emotion in his latest films. In "New Police Story", he portrayed a character suffering from alcoholism and mourning his murdered colleagues. To further shed the image of a "nice guy", Chan played an antihero for the first time in "Rob-B-Hood" starring as Thongs, a burglar with gambling problems. He plays a low-level gangster in 2009's "Shinjuku Incident", a serious drama set in Tokyo about unsavory characters.