story identification - Sci Fi action movie where an elite group of people control business through a game they play online

I saw a movie where people are running from a group of powerful killers or a naughty company/organization. A woman was hired to find the entity/company. A very overweight Asian man talks to them on line at one point. (When I say overweight, I mean 400 pounds plus)

He talks to a virtual dolphin and tells it he is sorry but he cannot play with the dolphin that day. Eventually, the people find the fat guy in real life. He is sitting on a Chinese style boat in a river (I think it was a river). (He is sitting in the rear of the boat. The boat is rather small. He is wearing a loin wrap like a sumo wrestler. In fact, I should most likely call him a sumo wrestler to describe the look.)

He had implants and wires coming out of his head like the Borg Queen did.

There is another part in the movie, where he replies to someones concern, saying, "I live a life of wonder..." (or something similar).

By the time the movie is over, the evil force has caused his death. A team of Yakuza style (might actually be the Yakuza) commandos tear through everything trying to stop the truth from being discovered. The huge Asian man ends up leaving little messages, like parts of himself, to guide the woman to the truth. The ending reveals the naughty company/organization is a group of elite power brokers that control business by playing a game. Corporations lose or gain ground over nothing more than the turn of a game. (Including totally going out of business or making a fortune from nothing.)

Do you have any idea what movie this was?

Answer

Avatar - Cyber wars (or just Cyber wars)

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From IMDB:

Dash brings Victor to meet Julius and he shows Megacorp transactions in Sintawan to them. He explains that these five companies make up the total infrastructure and have total control over Cyberlink. They form a powerful consortium and play a game based on the ancient Chinese game Wei Chi. Sintawan is the playing field where they wage corporate war in accordance with the strategies of the five companies, manipulating the course of the society and everyone living here. Therefore the place is an illusion and nothing is what it seems and there is no distinction between the game and reality. Then Dash finds that they are all avatars. What will they do?

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