City Hunter (film)

City Hunter
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWong Jing
Screenplay byWong Jing
Based onCity Hunter
by Tsukasa Hojo
Produced byChua Lam
StarringJackie Chan
Joey Wong
Kumiko Goto
Chingmy Yau
Gary Daniels
Leon Lai
CinematographyLau Moon-tong
Ma Gam-cheung
Gigo Lee
Edited byCheung Ka-fai
Peter Cheung
Music byRomeo Diaz
James Wong
Production
company
Distributed byFortune Star Media Limited
Release date
  • 14 January 1993 (1993-01-14)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeUS$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.