Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Name: Big Trouble in Little China
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Released: 1986-05-30
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong

Action Comedy Fantasy Adventure

Director: John Carpenter

Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong

Runtime100 min

Rating15

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Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

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Fans of director John Carpenter's distinctive style will appreciate the offbeat blend of action, comedy, and fantasy in this 1986 cult classic. Kurt Russell delivers a charismatic performance as the wisecracking truck driver caught up in a supernatural adventure full of imaginative visuals and Hong Kong-inspired martial arts sequences.

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Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (Hong), who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse.