The Accidental Spy

The Accidental Spy
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese特務迷城
Simplified Chinese特务迷城
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTè Wù Mí Chéng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingDak6 Mou6 Mai4 Sing4
Directed byTeddy Chan
Written byIvy Ho
Produced byJackie Chan
Raymond Chow
StarringJackie Chan
Eric Tsang
Vivian Hsu
Wu Hsing-kuo
Scott Adkins
CinematographyHorace Wong
William Yim
Edited byKwong Chi-leung
Music byPeter Kam
Michael Wandmacher
Production
companies
Golden Harvest
GH Pictures
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 18 January 2001 (2001-01-18)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesEnglish
Cantonese
Mandarin
Korean
Turkish
BudgetHK$200 Million
Box officeHK$30.5 Million

The Accidental Spy (Chinese: 特務迷城; pinyin: Tè Wù Mí Chéng; Jyutping: Dak6 Mou6 Mai4 Sing4) is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts action film starring Jackie Chan, produced by Chan and Raymond Chow, and directed by Teddy Chan. Filming took place in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Cappadocia, Istanbul.

Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English, particularly during communications between the Hong Kong characters and the Korean and Turkish characters. Despite being an adventure-thriller, it features moments of humour, as is typical of Chan's films.

The film was nominated for the Best Action Choreography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Design in the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards, and won in former two categories.[1] It was also nominated the Best Action Choreography in the 38th Golden Horse Awards.

  1. ^ "List of Awardees of The 21st Hong Kong Film Awards". Hong Kong Film Awards. Retrieved 1 September 2022.