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Island of Fire(Movie, 1990)

Original title: "火燒島" (Chinese (Cantonese)/CN)
R
| 1h 35min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Action, Thriller
Island of FireRating: 3.1/5 (with 5151 votes)
Island of Fire (Chinese: 火燒島) is a 1990 Taiwanese-Hong Kong action film directed by Kevin Chu, and starring Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Tou Chung-hua. The film was shot in Taiwan and the Philippines in 42 days from 5 April until 17 May 1989. The film's theme song, The Last Gunshot (最後一槍) by Cui Jian, was written as a response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in Beijing, China. This is the third collaboration between producer Jimmy Wang Yu and Jackie Chan, With their first, collaboration being Killer Meteors in 1976, the film's producer and co-star, Jimmy Wang Yu, came to Chan's aid when the then young actor sought his help in settling a dispute with the veteran director Lo Wei. The dispute was settled by Golden Harvest paying 10 million HK dollars (2 million US dollars) to Lo Wei. Chan repaid the favor b... ()
Movie poster of Island of Fire

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About Island of Fire

Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Plays in: Philippines
Original language: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)
Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), English (EN), Tagalog / Filipino (TL), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Translated into 23 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/01/1990 (World premiere: 03/28/1990)
Director: Chu Yen-ping
Producer: Jimmy Wang Yu
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Missão na Ilha do Fogo"
"The Prisoner - Island of Fire"
"Island On Fire"
"Huo shao dao"
"Jackie Chan Is the Prisoner"
"Rumble in the Prison"
"The Burning Island"
"The Prisoner"
"When Dragons Meet"

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