Sing si lip yan (1993)

Director:

Jing Wong

Writers:

Tsukasa Hôjô (comic)
Jing Wong (writer)

Release Date:

16 enero 1993 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Extremely silly comedy about a self-indulgent private investigator who winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Left Handedness | Hong Kong | Kung Fu | Skateboard

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Not Jackie's best but his most sheerly FUN movie!

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	Ryu Saeba
Joey Wang	...	Kaori Makimura / Carrie
Chingmy Yau	...	Saeko Nogami / Anna
Richard Norton	...	Col. MacDonald
Michael Wong	...	Hideyuki Makimura
Gary Daniels	...	MacDonald's Main Henchman
Kumiko Goto	...	Shizuko Imamura / Kyoko
Leon Lai	...	Kôtetsu / Gundam
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Mike Abbott	...	Mike
Eric Kot	...	DJ Soft
Peter Lai	...	Creep in White Suit
Jan Lamb	...	DJ Hard (as Jan Lam)
Lynne Langdon	...	Casino Waitress (as Lynne Frances)
Vincent La Porte
Ken Lo	...	Chen Ta-Wen (as Wai-kwong Lo)
Hoi Mang	...	Henchman ("Room service")
Kenzo Ogiwara
Louis Roth
Lap-Man Sin	...	Rocky
Carol Wan	...	Saeko's Friend

También conocida como:

Cheng shi lie ren (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
City Hunter (Hong Kong: English title)
City Hunter (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and some sexual content.

Duración:

105 min | Spain:94 min (DVD edition) | Hong Kong:95 min

País:

Hong Kong | Japan

Idioma:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Spain:18 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 (video premiere) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 (re-rating) | Germany:18 (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Golden Way Films Ltd.

Trivialidades:

During the "Hard & Soft" song and dance scene in the casino, amongst the crowd can be spotted Australian actor and stuntman Michael Miller, and a long haired Mike Leeder, editor of Impact magazine.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the person with the cards is standing in a corridor at one point in the movie, his sleeve is torn and bloody for one shot. But then, for one shot, his sleeve is not torn, and there is no blood. A few seconds later, it is torn and bloody again.

Quotes:

Shizuko Imamura: I'll do anything you say.
Ryô Saeba: [exhausted] Really?
Shizuko Imamura: [nods her head] Yes.
Ryô Saeba: GET ME A BOWL OF NOODLES!
[faints]

Movie Connections:

References Game of Death (1978)

Not Jackie's best but his most sheerly FUN movie!

Loosely based on a Manga,City Hunter is by no means Jackie's best on an artistic level. However,it might very well be his most sheerly entertaining.

Although the plot is similar to Under Siege,the similarities end there. City Hunter is played almost entirely for laughs and manages to be consistently funny throughout while having more inventive ideas in 20 minutes than all three Austin Powers movies put together. Director Wong Jing {the same Wong Jing who made Naked Killer and God Of Gamblers!}absolutely crams the film with sight gags and slapstick,all filmed in a bright cartoon-like manner. One sequence involving Jackie being chased around a ship while hunting for food is an absolute masterpiece of silent-movie style comedy. Many of the best gags are very quick,such as Jackie crawling out of a bag hardly bigger than his head. Some are extremely sexist though,such as the woman holding a gun and falling forward because of the combined weight of the gun and her large breasts {this happens more than once}.

Despite all this City Hunter still manages to be crammed with action scenes,except of course in this film rather than simply staging a fight in a cinema we have Jackie taking guidance from an on-screen Bruce Lee! A Streetfighter sequence where the characters morph in to various game combatants has to be seen to be believed and the end showdown between Jackie and Richard Norton,although not one of his best in terms of martial arts technique,is easily his funniest.

Add some great characters,a terrific score,and for the male viewers,some gorgeous Hong Kong 'babes',and you have 90 minutes of sheer,non-stop FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!