3 Movies Starring James Hong

Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-07-02

Languages:

English, Cantonese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (83960 Reviews)

Director:

John Carpenter

Cast:

Writer:

Gary Goldman

David Z. Weinstein

W.D. Richter (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancèe Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.

Safe

Safe

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-04-27

Languages:

English, Mandarin, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (75430 Reviews)

Director:

Boaz Yakin

Fullplot:

In China, the girl Mei is a genius that looks like a computer in numbers. She is abducted by the Chinese Triads and the boss Han Jiao ends Mei to Chinatown, in New York, to help him in the control of his activities. Meanwhile, the fighter Luke Wright has his life destroyed when he wins a fight against the will of the Russian Mafia and accidentally kills his opponent. The Russian mobsters kill his wife and the alcoholic Luke wanders on the streets and hostels with no objective in life. One day, Han Jiao asks Mei to memorize a long number and soon the Russian Mafia abducts the girl from the Chinese mobs. She escapes from the mobsters she is chased by the Russians; by the corrupt detectives from the NYPD; and by the Triads. When Luke sees the girl fleeing from the Russian mobs in the subway, he protects the girl and discovers that the number she had memorized is the combination of a safe where the Triads keep 30 million dollars. Luke is an elite agent and uses his skills to protect the girl.

Monkey King: Hero Is Back

Monkey King: Hero Is Back

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-07-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

China

Runtime:

89 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (699 Reviews)

Director:

Tian Xiao Peng

Genres:

Animation

Cast:

Writer:

Cory Edwards (creative consultant)

Tian Xiao Peng

Stephanie Sheh (english adaptation)

Fullplot:

The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement from this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters.

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