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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)  link to Big Trouble in Little China on IMDb  

Number: 318

cover Big Trouble in Little China

IMDb Rating:
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7.3/10 (102.6K votes)

Also known as: John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (complete title)

Country: United States, 99 minutes

Spoken languages: English, Cantonese

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director(s): John Carpenter

Storyline:
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 fiancée 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.

Cast:

Kurt Russell Jack Burton
Kim Cattrall Gracie Law
James Hong David Lo Pan
Victor Wong Egg Shen
Kate Burton Margo

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Large Folder Page 11

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1