Supercop

Police Story 3: Supercop
Film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese警察故事3超級警察
Simplified Chinese警察故事3超级警察
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJǐngchá Gùshì Sān Chāojí Jǐngchá
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingGing2 Chaat3 Gu3 Si6 Saam1 Ciu1 Kap1 Ging2 Chaat3
Directed byStanley Tong
Written byEdward Tang
Ma Fibe
Yee Lee Wai
Produced byWillie Chan
Edward Tang
Jackie Chan
Leonard Ho
Starring
CinematographyArdy Lam
Edited byCheung Ka-Fai
Peter Cheung
Music byMac Chew
Jenny Chinn
Richard Lo
Jonathan Lee
Joel McNeely (U.S)
Toru Takemitsu (Japan)
Distributed byMedia Asia
Golden Harvest
Golden Way Films Co. Ltd.
Dimension Films
Miramax (U.S)
Toho (Japan)
Release date
  • 4 July 1992 (1992-07-04)
Running time
95 minutes
91 minutes (U.S)
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
English
Malay
Budget$900,000
Box officeUS$34.4 million (est.)

Police Story 3: Supercop (Chinese: 警察故事3超級警察; Cantonese Yale: gíng chaat gu sih sāam: Chīu kāp gíng chaat), released as Supercop in the United States and also known as Jackie Chan's Supercop, is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Stanley Tong. It is the third installment in the Police Story series, with Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung reprising their roles from the first two films, and Michelle Yeoh introduced as a new co-lead alongside Chan.

In Supercop, series protagonist Chan Ka-kui (Chan) is selected as Hong Kong's "supercop" to work undercover with elite Chinese policewoman Jessica Yang (Yeoh) and take down a drug cartel. It is the last film in the series to feature Cheung, and the first not directed by Chan, although he returns as action director and is now also a producer.[1]

Chan, Tung and Tong would return for the direct sequel First Strike (1996), which would conclude the original series before two reboots in 2004 and 2013; Yeoh would also receive her own spin-off film Supercop 2 in 1993, again directed by Tong.

  1. ^ Thomas, Kevin (26 July 1996). "Supercop Gets Kicks From Footloose Style". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 October 2010.