It is no secret that Jimmy Wang Yu, with his connections had helped Jackie Chan, then a young actor to settle his dispute with director Lo Wei. So in returning the favor, Chan appeared in a few movies produced by Wang and this is one of their collaborations. Interestingly, even though he only showed up briefly in support roles, these movies still get marketed as him being the main lead. As Chan became more popular in the West, and on DVD, this production became “Jackie Chan is The Prisoner”, which is misleading.
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Set in Taiwan, this prison drama has quite an impressive ensemble cast of supporting Hong Kong actors besides Golden Horse Awards winner, veteran Taiwanese actor Ko Chuen Hsiung as the prison superintendent. Nevertheless, Tony Leung Ka Fai plays Andy Wang Wei, a cop who, upon his return to Taipei, witnesses his father-in-law gunned...
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Set in Taiwan, this prison drama has quite an impressive ensemble cast of supporting Hong Kong actors besides Golden Horse Awards winner, veteran Taiwanese actor Ko Chuen Hsiung as the prison superintendent. Nevertheless, Tony Leung Ka Fai plays Andy Wang Wei, a cop who, upon his return to Taipei, witnesses his father-in-law gunned...
- 6/12/2022
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
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