City Hunter (Chinese: 城市獵人; pinyin: Sing si lip yan ) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy film writt and directed by Wong Jing, and starring Jackie Chan, Joey Wong, Kumiko Goto, Chingmy Yau, Gary Daniels, Leon Lai and Richard Norton.
It is an adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name by Tsukasa Hojo, first serialized in Weekly Shōn Jump betwe 1985 and 1991.
Chan plays Ryo Saeba, a womanizing private investigator hired to retrieve the wayward daughter of a news magnate. In the process, he and his partner/love interest Kaori (Wong) find themselves on a cruise ship tak over by terrorists.
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Ryo Saeba is a private investigator known as the City Hunter. His assistant is Kaori Makimura, the younger sister of his late partner Hideyuki, who with his dying words made the womanizing detective swear that he would never seduce her. In spite of this, Kaori has fall madly in love with Ryo, and is upset wh he seemingly spurns her advances.
Saeba and Makimura are hired to locate Kiyoko Imamura, the runaway daughter of the CEO of a promint newspaper. They trace to her Hong Kong, but Kaori leaves in the middle of the search, unhappy with the way Ryo ignores her romantic feelings for him and flirts with other wom. Ryo finds Kiyoko at a skateboarding park and a chase sues, but she evades him, stealing a boarding pass for a luxury cruise liner, the Fuji Maru.
Ryo follows, not knowing that the spurned Kaori has boarded, with her lustful cousin Rocky. Unbeknownst to all of them, the cruise has be targeted by terrorists led by ex-US Special Forces Colonel Big Mac MacDonald, who plan to hijack it and hold the wealthy passgers hostage. Undercover police officer Saeko Nogami and her assistant Kasumi Asou are in pursuit.
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Staying next door from each other, Kiyoko inadverttly overhears MacDonald's plan. MacDonald discovers her and sds one of his m to kill her, but she knocks him out and escapes. She th bumps into the ship's first officer, who takes her to the boiler room and reveals himself as one of the terrorists. Wh he attempts to silce Kiyoko, Ryo, who had be staying there since his counter with Kaori and her cousin at the swimming pool, saves her. Wh MacDonald's gang arrive, the officer is killed in the shootout while Ryo and Kiyoko escape into the movie theater, where Game of Death is being shown. To beat two towering opponts, Ryo interprets Bruce Lee's techniques from the film.
At the ship's casino, the sailaway party is interrupted wh MacDonald kills the captain and terrorizes the partygoers, including Saeko and her sidekick. After robbing them of their valuables, he tices the rich patrons into a sadistic card game. A few opponts are quickly disposed of until Kao Ta, a skilled card gamer who uses his cards as shuriks, joins in. Wh MacDonald is distracted by seeing Ryo and Kiyoko not far away, Ta and Saeko put an d to his game.
MacDonald's right-hand man Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room. Wh Ryo bursts in, both m fight before MacDonald and his m interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process. Kaori escapes, bumping into Kiyoko, Saeko, Kasumi and Kao. They take down a gay terrorist trying to seduce Rocky and prepare to save Ryo.
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Ryo is stood before a firing squad. Kiyoko, Saeko, and her sidekick interrupt the planned execution, but are forced to separate by MacDonald's gang. Kiyoko uses her gymnastic skills to defeat one hchman, Saeko saves Ta after he runs out of cards in a fight with several terrorists, and her sidekick falls off a ledge and is left unconscious. Ryo goes into the gaming parlor with his hands still tied, but is thrown into a Street Fighter II arcade game by Kim and suffers an electric shock. This causes him to hallucinate and think Kim is K from the game. After a failed attempt to defeat him as E. Honda, Ryo defeats him as Chun-Li.
As a Taiwanese counter terrorism unit, the Thunderbolts Squad, arrives and take his m out, MacDonald blows up bombs he had set up all over the ship and takes Kaori hostage at the casino. Wh Ryo and Saeko arrive, he injures both wom and starts a long fight with Ryo. However, MacDonald is thrown into the stage and dies wh he accidtally steps on his remote, setting off the bombs behind the TV panels.
Ryo and Kaori find Kiyoko and return to her father. He speaks to Ryo privately, seeing him as a future husband to Kiyoko. Listing to their conversation, Kaori leaves in anger, unaware that Ryo has declined the man's offer. However, Ryo finds her and tries to apologize with a rose, but th Saeko drives up and flirts with him. He gives her the rose instead and furious, Kaori smashes him through the air with a big hammer. Ryo wakes up in his recurring dream with beautiful wom at the swimming pool.
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The original Cantonese-language version of the film uses the Chinese names for the main characters, but these are translated as their original Japanese counterparts in the glish subtitles and dubbing.
For example, Ryo Saeba's name (繪場亮) would properly be transliterated 'Huì Chǎng Liàng' (Pinyin Romanization). His Chinese name, 'Mèng Bō' (孟波), directly transliterated into Japanese would be rdered 'Takeshi Nami'.
The idea of adapting City Hunter into a live-action film came after a poll of Japanese Jackie Chan fans showed their thusiasm for the actor playing Ryo Saeba.
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Filming took place mostly aboard a real cruise ship and on-location in Hong Kong, with the final sce shot on-location in Tokyo, Japan. The massive lounge of the cruise ship was a set constructed at Shaw Brothers Studio.
There were time constraints on the preparation of the film to release it on time for its release on the Chinese New Year. Near the d of filming, shots of Chan's final fight sce with Richard Norton, had him doubled by stunt performer Mars to save time on reshoots.
According to Norton and Gary Daniels, Wong Jing did not have a set script, but simply wrote dialogue for the actors to ad-lib on the day of filming. Daniels took time off from shooting the Albert Pyun-directed Knights to film City Hunter.
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The name of the Street Fighter character was changed from E. Honda to E. Honde. This was because Chan had a contract with the Mitsubishi car company at the time, and Honda is the name of a rival company.
The film was released in Hong Kong by Gold Harvest on Chinese New Year (January 14) 1993, the same day as another Wong Jing film, Fight Back to School III.
The DVD release received mixed reviews in the early 2000s, with a 50% rating on Rott Tomatoes. Critics praised the action sequces, but criticised the story and slapstick anime style. IGN concluded that it fails as an adaptation but succeeds as a fun Jackie Chan flick.
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On 23 April 2001, a DVD was released by Hong Kong Legds in the United Kingdom in Region 2. Two years later, Fortune Star released a 3 disc set on 29 December 2003 with two other martial arts films: Story of Ricky and The Dragon from Russia. In the United States, the first DVD release was a port of the Mega Star Region 0 release repackaged by Tai Sg. Later on, 20th Ctury Fox Home tertainmt (under licsed from Fortune Star) released a region 1 DVD in 2004 utilizing the remastered Fortune Star transfer. It was released again in 2012 by Shout Factory in a double feature single disc with Battle Creek Brawl on both DVD and Blu-ray.
All currtly available versions restore a sce that was removed from both the theatrical release as well as the LaserDisc versions of the film. The sce involves one of Kaori's suitors going on a rant about foreign tourists (to wit, Richard Norton's band of terrorists) and saying that he hopes they die of AIDS in Chinese, only to discover that they understood him very well. The sce was removed because the film's distributors were concerned that foreign audices might be offded by the homophobic nature of the sce.
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