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1993 Hong Kong motion-picture show

City Hunter
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Wong Jing
Screenplay by	Wong Jing
Based on	Metropolis Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo
Produced by	Chua Lam
Starring	Jackie Chan Joey Wong Kumiko Goto Chingmy Yau Gary Daniels Leon Lai
Cinematography	Lau Moon-tong Ma Gam-cheung Gigo Lee
Edited by	Cheung Ka-fai Peter Cheung
Music by	Romeo Díaz James Wong
Product companies	Golden Harvest Paragon Films Golden Manner Films
Distributed by	Golden Harvest Gala Film Distribution
Release date	16 January 1993 (1993-01-xvi)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Linguistic communication	Cantonese
Box role	United states$14.6 meg

City Hunter (Chinese: 城市獵人; Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy flick written and directed by Wong Jing. The film stars Jackie Chan, Joey Wong, Kumiko Goto, Chingmy Yau, Gary Daniels and Leon Lai. The motion-picture show is based on the Japanese manga of the aforementioned name. The film was released in Hong Kong on xiv January 1993 along with Wong Jing's Fight Back to School Iii starring Stephen Chow.

Plot [edit]

Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura are assigned to locate Shizuko Imamura, the runaway daughter of the CEO of a prominent Japanese paper. Kaori leaves in the middle of the search, unhappy with the way Ryo ignores her romantic feelings for him and flirts with other women. Ryo finds Shizuko at a skateboarding park and a hunt ensues, but she escapes in disguise.

Shizuko boards a luxury cruise liner, the Fuji Maru, with the ticket she found in the adapt she stole. Kaori as well boards the ship with her lustful cousin while Ryo sneaks inside to follow her. A terrorist gang led past MacDonald accept plans to hijack it and take the rich passengers hostage with Police Officeholder Saeko Nogami and her buxom sidekick in pursuit.

Staying adjacent door from each other, Shizuko overhears MacDonald'southward programme. MacDonald discovers her and sends one of his men to kill her, but she knocks him out and escapes. She then bumps into the ship's starting time officer, who takes her to the banality room and reveals himself every bit a terrorist. When he attempts to silence Shizuko, Ryo, who had been staying there since his encounter with Kaori and her cousin at the swimming pool, saves her. When MacDonald'due south gang arrive, the officer is killed in the shootout while Ryo and Shizuko escape into the movie theater, where Game of Death is beingness shown. To beat two towering opponents, Ryo interprets Bruce Lee's techniques from the movie.

At the ship's casino, a party hosted by the captain is interrupted when MacDonald kills the captain and terrorizes the partygoers, including Saeko and her sidekick. Afterwards robbing them of their valuables, he entices the rich patrons into a sadistic card game. A few opponents are quickly disposed of until Kao Ta, a skilled bill of fare gamer who uses his cards as shurikens, joins in. When MacDonald is distracted past seeing Ryo and Shizuko non far abroad, Ta and Saeko put an cease to his game.

MacDonald'due south henchman Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room. When Ryo bursts in, both men fight earlier MacDonald and his men interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process. Kaori escapes, bumping into Shizuko, Saeko, and the rest of the main characters. They take down a gay terrorist trying to seduce Kaori's cousin and prepare to save Ryo.

The side by side day, Ryo is stood before a firing team. Shizuko, Saeko, and her sidekick interrupt the planned execution, just are forced to separate past MacDonald'due south gang. Shizuko uses her gymnastic skills to defeat 1 henchman, Saeko saves Ta after he runs out of cards in a fight with several terrorists, and her sidekick falls off a ledge and is left unconscious. Ryo goes into the gaming parlor with his easily all the same tied, but is thrown into a Street Fighter II arcade game past Kim and suffers an electric shock. This causes him to hallucinate and think Kim is Ken from the game. After a failed attempt to defeat him equally East. Honda, Ryo defeats him as Chun-Li.

As a Taiwanese counter terrorism unit, the "Thunderbolts Team", arrives and take his men out, MacDonald blows upward bombs he had set up up all over the send and takes Kaori hostage at the casino. When Ryo and Saeko arrive, he injures both women and starts a long fight with Ryo. However, MacDonald is thrown into the phase and dies when he accidentally steps on his remote, setting off the bombs backside the T.V. panels.

Ryo and Kaori find Shizuko and render to her father. He speaks to Ryo privately, seeing him as a futurity married man to Shizuko. Listening to their chat, Kaori leaves in anger, unaware that Ryo has declined the homo's offer. However, Ryo finds her and tries to apologize with a rose, but then Saeko drives up and flirts with him. He gives her the rose instead and furious, Kaori smashes him through the air with a big hammer. Ryo wakes upwardly in his recurring dream with beautiful women at the swimming pool.

Cast [edit]

Jackie Chan as Ryo Saeba
Joey Wong as Kaori Makimura
- Leila Tong as Kaori as a child
Kumiko Goto every bit Shizuko Imamura
Chingmy Yau as Saeko Nogami
Ballad Wan equally Saeko's friend
Leon Lai as Kao Ta the gambler (Kao Ta the Wanderer/Gao Da the Wanderer)
Pal Sinn as Rocky Dung
Lo Wai-kwong equally Chen Ta-wen
Eric Kot equally DJ Difficult
January Lam every bit DJ Soft
Richard Norton as Col. Donald "Don Mac" MacDonald
Gary Daniels equally Kim / MacDonald's henchman
Yip San as Woman surprising Ryo
Josephine Lam as Adult female surprising Ryo
Donna Chu as Adult female surprising Ryo
Michael Wong as Hideyuki Makimura
Peter Lai every bit Man wearing white accommodate in store
William Tuan as Cruise passenger
Kenzo Hagiwara as Koji Imamura
Vincent Laporte equally Vincent Vu
Mike Abbott every bit Mike Vu
Louis Roth as Cruise Purser
Bruce Lee as Baton Lo (archive footage)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Fighter on Film #ii in Ship's Theater (annal footage)
Lee Tat-chiu as Ship crew member^[1] ^[2]

Production notes [edit]

The name of the Street Fighter grapheme was inverse to "E. Honde" from "East. Honda". This was considering Chan had a contract with the Mitsubishi automobile company, and Honda is the name of a rival company.^[three]
At that place were time constraints on the preparation of the pic to release it on fourth dimension for its release on the Chinese New Yr. Near the end of filming, shots of Chan's last fight scene with Richard Norton, had him doubled past stunt performer Mars to save time on reshoots.^[iii]
Co-ordinate to his book I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Activity, Chan dislocated his shoulder during production.^[iv]
The gambling expanse filled with televisions and a dance flooring was shot in the Shaw Brothers Studio.^[three]

Box office [edit]

In Hong Kong, the pic grossed HK$30,843,062^[v] (US$three,986,952),^[vi] making information technology the fourth summit-grossing Hong Kong film of 1993.^[five] In Japan, the film grossed ¥561 million ^[7] (US$five.05 one thousand thousand).^[viii]

In Taiwan, where it released in January 1993, it was the 9th highest-grossing moving-picture show of the yr, with NT$46,360,950^[9] (U.s.a.$1,824,328).^[10] In Republic of korea, the moving picture sold 808,329 tickets and grossed US$three.72 1000000.^[11] Combined, the picture grossed a total of approximately Us$xiv,581,280 in Eastern asia.

Home media [edit]

On 23 Apr 2001, a DVD was released by Hong Kong Legends in the United kingdom in Region 2. Ii years later, Fortune Star released a 3 disc set on 29 December 2003 with ii other martial arts films: Story of Ricky and The Dragon from Russia. In the The states, the offset DVD release was a port of the Mega Star Region 0 release repackaged by Tai Seng. Later on, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released a region one DVD in 2004 utilizing the remastered Fortune Star transfer. It was released again in 2012 past Shout Manufactory in a double feature unmarried disc with Battle Creek Brawl on both DVD and Blu-ray.

All currently available versions restore a scene that was removed from both the theatrical release also as the LaserDisc versions of the film. The scene involves one of Kaori's suitors going on a rant about strange tourists (to wit, Richard Norton'south ring of terrorists) and maxim that he hopes they dice of AIDS in Chinese, only to notice that they understood him very well. The scene was removed because the picture show's distributors were concerned that strange audiences might exist offended past the homophobic nature of the scene.

Critical reception [edit]

The DVD release received mixed reviews in the early 2000s, with a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics praised the action sequences, but criticised the story and slapstick anime fashion. IGN concluded that "it fails as an accommodation but succeeds as a fun Jackie Chan flick."^[12]

See too [edit]

Jackie Chan filmography
List of Hong Kong films

References [edit]

^ City Hunter at HKMDB
^ Urban center Hunter at chinesemov.com
^ ^a ^b ^c City Hunter (picture), Audio commentary by Bey Logan, Special Features (DVD featurette) (DVD). Hong Kong Legends, UK. 1992.
^ Jackie Chan. "Jackie's Aches and Pains: It Only Hurts When I'm Not Laughing". Random Business firm. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
^ ^a ^b "1993年全年十大最賣座香港影片如下(首輪)". Hong Kong Box Function Express (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 9 Apr 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
^ "Official exchange rate (LCU per Us$, period boilerplate) - Hong Kong". World Bank. 1993. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
^ "【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】第12回：日本での興行収入". KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
^ "Official substitution rate (LCU per United states of america$, menses average) - Japan". Earth Depository financial institution. 1993. Retrieved five June 2020.
^ "1993 Taiwan Box Role". National Chengchi University. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
^ "Historical exchange rates (TWD)". fxtop.com. January 1993. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
^ "【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】第10回：韓国での興行収入". KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 5 September 2010. Retrieved seven December 2018.
^ City Hunter at Rotten Tomatoes