Manhunt (2017 film)

Manhunt
Theatrical release poster
Chinese追捕
Directed byJohn Woo
Screenplay by
  • Gordon Chan
  • Chan Hing Kai
  • James Yuen
  • Itaru Era
  • Ho Miu Ki
  • Maria Wong
  • Sophie Yeh[1]
Based onKimi yo Funnu no Kawa o Watare
by Juko Nishimura
Produced byGordon Chan
Starring
CinematographyTakuro Ishizaki
Edited byLee Ka Wah[1]
Music byTaro Iwashiro[1]
Production
companies
  • Media Asia
  • China Film
  • Media Asia Audio Video Distribution
  • Shenzhen Murmur Culture Communications[2]
Release dates
  • 8 September 2017 (2017-09-08) (Venice)
  • 23 November 2017 (2017-11-23) (Hong Kong[3])
  • 24 November 2017 (2017-11-24) (China)
Running time
106 minutes[4]
Countries
  • China
  • Hong Kong[4]
Languages
  • Japanese
  • English
  • Mandarin[1]
BudgetUS$50 million[5]
Box officeUS$18.3 million[6]

Manhunt (simplified Chinese: 追捕; traditional Chinese; 追捕; pinyin; Zhuībǔ) is a 2017 action thriller film co-written and directed by John Woo, produced by Gordon Chan, and starring Zhang Hanyu, Masaharu Fukuyama, Qi Wei, Ha Ji-won, and Jun Kunimura.[2][5] The Chinese-Hong Kong co-production is an adaptation of the Japanese novel Kimi yo Funnu no Kawa o Watare by Juko Nishimura, which was previously adapted in a 1976 film of the same name. Woo decided to develop an adaptation to commemorate the film's star Ken Takakura, who had become a cultural icon in China after the film was the first to be released in China following the Cultural Revolution.

The film was shot on-location in Osaka and Kansai, Japan, and features a mixed Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cast, with dialogue in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. It has been described by Woo as a return to his older style of films, specifically mentioning The Killer. The film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and released in China on 24 November 2017. It was released worldwide on Netflix on 4 May 2018.[7]

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  3. ^ "吳宇森《追捕》11月上映 團隊赴威尼斯 出席世界首映". Ming Pao. 5 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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  5. ^ a b Shackleton, Liz (13 March 2017). "The 24 hottest projects at this year's Hong Kong Filmart". Screen Daily. Screen International. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Zhui bu (2017)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  7. ^ TV News Desk (14 March 2018). "Netflix Announces Five Features & One Short Premiering At SFFILM 2018". Broadway World. Wisdom Digital Media. Retrieved 24 August 2018.