City Hunter | |
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Directed by | Wong Jing |
Screenplay by | Wong Jing |
Based on | City 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 Diaz James Wong |
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Distributed by | Fortune Star Media Limited |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | US$14.6 million |
City Hunter (Chinese: 城市獵人; pinyin: Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy film written and directed by Wong Jing. The film stars Jackie Chan, Joey Wong, Kumiko Goto, Chingmy Yau, Gary Daniels, Leon Lai and Richard Norton.[1][2] It is an adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name by Tsukasa Hojo, first serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump between 1985 and 1991.
Chan plays Ryo Saeba, a womanizing private investigator hired to retrieve the wayward daughter of a news magnate. In the process, he and his partner/love interest Kaori (Wong) find themselves on a cruise ship taken over by terrorists.
The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong by Golden Harvest on Chinese New Year 1993.