Jackie chan movies

Actor and martial artist Jackie Chan has a career that spans decades. He's been in movies since he was five years old. Five. His breakthrough role didn't come until 1978's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, but it's clear he's had the chops for acting from a young age. Plus, his martial arts skills provided an edge that endeared him with action fans in both China and America. American audiences first met Chan in 1980's The Big Brawl, but his real success came in the '90s and early 2000's. His lead role in Rush Hour alongside actor Chris Tucker garnered him Hollywood success, and spawned two sequels. After establishing himself as a comedic actor, Chan went after more dramatic roles, like in 2017's The Foreigner, an action movie that also stars Pierce Brosnan. His long career has produced some of the best fight scenes in cinema, and daring stunts rivaling Project X. Below are 15 of Jackie Chan's best films.

Running time 110 minutes Country Hong Kong Language Cantonese Box office US$16.5 million ( est.) Drunken Master ( 醉拳; It is an early milestone of the Plot Beggar So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his punishment. Penniless, Wong stops at a restaurant and tries to con a fellow patron into offering him a free meal. As Wong was about to leave after his meal, he discovers that the man is actually the owner of the restaurant. He fights with the owner's lackeys in an attempt to escape. An old drunkard nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So (who is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So-Hi or Su Hua-chi), the Drunken Master. Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training programme, but he flees again to avoid the torturous training and runs into the notorious killer Yim Tit-sam (known in some versions as Thunderfoot or Thunderleg) by accident. Yim is known for his "Devil's Kick", a swift and deadly kicking style which has never been defeated. Wong provokes and challenges him to a fight and is soundly defeated and humiliated. He makes his way back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master's training program. The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called " Meanwhile, Yim Tit-sam is contracted by a business rival to kill Wong's father. Wong...

Hard as it might be to believe, more than two decades have passed since Hong Kong action legend Jackie Chan teamed up with quippy comedian Chris Tucker for the first "Rush Hour" movie. Perhaps more unexpected than that on-screen pairing was the film's runaway success at the box office; the modestly budgeted actioner netted more than $244 million in global ticket sales, thus launching one of least likely trilogies ever to dominate the big screen. Essentially a "Beverly Hills Cop"-styled buddy cop flick with an international bent, the first "Rush Hour" movie finds Tucker playing a loud-mouthed L.A. detective opposite Chan's crack Hong Kong inspector. The duo plays up the culture clash for lots of good laughs after they inadvertently find themselves working the same case. Fueled by Chan and Tucker's infectious chemistry — and fit with a bevy of suitably Chan-centric set pieces — "Rush Hour" proved an absolute blast when it hit theaters in 1998. Ditto for the ensuing sequels, 2001's "Rush Hour 2" and 2007's "Rush Hour 3." To date, those films have pulled in close to $1 billion worldwide at the box office. So even if more than 20 years have passed since Chan and Tucker first traded one-liners on the big screen, it's easy to see why studio bosses might still be eager to get them back together for more shenanigans. Though a fourth entry in the franchise has seemed close at hand over the years, "Rush Hour 4" has yet to materialize — but that might be about to change. Here's everyt...

List of the films of Hong Kong actor and filmmaker Jackie Chan The Young Master 1983's At the $5 million per film. US$146 million) in US$607 million) in US$72 million in South Korea between 1991 and 2010, 84 million tickets between 1973 and 2010. ¥14 billion US$2.17 billion) in China, US$1.84 billion US$2.44 billion adjusted for inflation) in the United States and Canada. US$5 billion at the worldwide box office. Film [ ] 1960s [ ] Year Title Role Notes Refs. 1962 Child First film; credited as Yuen Lau 1963 The Golden Hairpin 碧血金釵 Child 1964 Liang Shan Po and Chu Ying Tai 梁山伯與祝英台 Child The Story of Qin Xiang Lin 秦香蓮 Child 1966 The Eighteen Darts (Part 1) 兩湖十八鏢(上集) Kid The Eighteen Darts (Part 2) 兩湖十八鏢(下集) Kid Kid 1969 The Magnificent Monk 濟公活佛 — As writer 1970s [ ] Year English title Original title Role Notes Refs. 1970 Lady of Steel 荒江女俠 Beggar Kid 1971 Enemy Guard — 1972 Jing Wu's student Hiroshi Suzuki Also stuntman Black Bear's student Also stuntman Official Hai's servant Thug Also stuntman Hai Tien's fan Supposed (in scripts only) Stranger from Hong Kong 香港過客 — 1973 Han's prison thug Also stuntman; first appearance in a Facets of Love 北地胭脂 Xiao Liu Cameo; credited as Chen Yuan-lung Not Scared to Die 頂天立地 Si To / Shi Tzer Cameo Gang Leader Also stuntman and Kung Fu Girl 鐵娃 Japanese thug Also stuntman; credited as Chen Yuan-lung Hsiao Hu Role name changed to Ah Lung for 1979 version; also action director Freedom Strikes a Blow 碼頭大決鬥 Thug Uncredited extra; also stuntman ...

In recent years, Jackie Chan has gone back to make more Chinese films, such as a new release called Tales of the Shadowhunter. The actor has the rare opportunity to float between two film industries, but there are specific reasons why the martial artist and actor does not make as many American movies. In his words to Brazilian site I want to make sure that every year the audience can see so many different sides of Jackie Chan. I would like audiences to consider me as an actor who can do action, not just as an action star. I don't like to repeat myself. It sounds like Jackie Chan found himself boxed in when it came to Hollywood action roles. He likes to jump into different roles, and moving over to Chinese productions has given him this. It’s true, over here we do see Chan as a beloved action star more than anything else, and it may not be easy for the actor to find completely different movies to tackle. His latest Chinese film has the actor playing Pu Songling, an actual Chinese writer from the Qing Dynasty. Jackie Chan gets to be part of a fantasy tale in the foreign film, that is, taking the biopic in a completely different place than one might expect. Chan said following The Karate Kid, it took him seven years to choose another Hollywood film with 2017’s The Foreigner. Jackie Chan said he has received loads of scripts over the years, but the roles are always for a “Hong Kong policeman.” He says he never actually left America, he just could not “find the right script.” R...

Jackie Chan has stated multiple times that he did not like the movie Rush Hour, which was released in 1998 and arguably was his breakthrough in the U.S. film industry. Chan claims that he does not understand U.S. humour and audiences, and he only reluctantly took on his iconic role as a detective inspector from Hong Kong at the behest of his manager. Jackie Chan, originally Chan Kong-sang, (born April 7, 1954, Hong Kong), Hong Kong-born Chinese stuntman, actor, and director whose Chan was born to impoverished parents in She xing diao shou ( Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow) and Zui quan ( Drunken Master). He then wrote and directed as well as starred in Xiao quan guai zhao (1979; The Fearless Hyena). Pop Culture Quiz Chan retained complete creative control for Shi di chu ma (1980; The Young Master), his debut with the production company Golden Harvest, which he subsequently helped transform into Hong Kong’s largest movie conglomerate. In the early 1980s, at the time when he was making an unsuccessful ‘A’ jihua (1983; Project A) and Jing cha gu shi (1985: Police Story), along with their sequels. The films showcased his directorial talent for fight and stunt choreography. His own stunts were often extraordinarily dangerous; he nearly perished from a fall in Lung hing foo dai (1986; Armour of God) that fractured his skull and impaired his hearing. Rush Hour 2 In the 1990s Chan finally broke through into the American market. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the cable...