Big Trouble in Little China(Movie, 1986)

Name: Big Trouble in Little China
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1986
Duration: T01:39:00
Rating: 3.6

PG-13

| 1h 39min | Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 1,280 votes)

Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (Hong), who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse. Although the original screenplay by first-time screenwriters Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein was envisioned as a Western set in the... ()

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About Big Trouble in Little China

When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan—who must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.

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Trailer for Big Trouble in Little China + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Theatrical Trailer [1986](Trailer, 2:41)

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Additional Information

Official websites:

www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: San Francisco (California)

Plays in: San Francisco (California), Los Angeles (California)

Derivative works/Adaptions: "Big Trouble in Little China" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: TAFT Entertainment Pictures, 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), English (EN)

Translated into 28 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/30/1986

Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Peter Kwong, Al Leong, Diana Tanaka, Jerry Hardin, Kate Burton, Gerald Okamura, John Carpenter, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dan Inosanto, George Cheung, Suzee Pai

Director: John Carpenter

Producer: Larry J. Franco

Screenwriter: Gary Goldman, W. D. Richter

Film Editor: Steve Mirkovich

Director of Photography: Dean Cundey

Composer: John Carpenter

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Rescate en el Barrio Chino"

"Големи неприятности в китайския квартал"

"Os Aventureiros do Bairro Proibido"

"Golpe en la pequeña China"

"Masacre en el Barrio Chino"

"Wielka Draka w Chińskiej Dzielnicy"

"Большой переполох в маленьком Китае"

"Rescate en el Barrio Chino"

"John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China"

Keywords: cult film, kidnapping, adventurer, magic, chinatown, truck driver, 1980s, mercenary, martial arts, kung fu, san francisco, california, mystery, mythology

Budget: 25,000,000 USD

Revenue: 11,000,000 USD (= 44%)

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