Product Information
Action fantasy tale about a wise-cracking trucker who attempts to rescue his friend's fiance from a 2000 year-old magician who lives beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician's dark domain.Product Identifiers
ProducerLarry J. Franco
EAN5060146915977
eBay Product ID (ePID)72507224
Product Key Features
ActorCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Victor Wong, Kurt Russell, James Pax, Kate Burton, Dennis Dun, Peter Kwong, James Hong, Carter Wong, Kim Cattrall
DirectorJohn Carpenter
Release Year2008
GenreGeneral, Action/Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
FormatUMD
LanguageEnglish
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Director of PhotographyDean Cundey
ReviewsNew York Times - ...Carpenter is conspicuously with it....An upscale send-up..., Variety - ...[The] costuming, sets, stunts and special visual effects by Richard Edlund are particularly lavish...
Certificate15
Special EffectsRichard Edlund
Consumer AdviceContains strong violence
Additional InformationA cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favourites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crimelord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit. Carpenter uses all the best elements of martial arts films, 1940s old action serials, Chinese mythology and straight-forward American adventure to make up a tale wild with imagination. Russell is wonderful as the brash, brave, and reluctant hero Jack Burton, who is hysterically out of place in this world of magic potions, goblins and curses. A visually stunning work that ranks as one of Carpenter's best films.
Movie/TV TitleBig Trouble in Little China
ComposerAlan Howarth, John Carpenter
Executive ProducerKeith Barish, Paul Monash
Sound sourceDolby Digital
ScreenwriterDavid Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter, Gary Goldman
Run Time96 mins