Underplayed Gems

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

Rumble in the Bronx poster
Original title
紅番區
Directed by
Stanley Tong
Genre
crime film, martial arts film, action comedy film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 1,191 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Hong Kong police officer visits his uncle in New York and fights a local gang. It mixes martial arts with comedy.

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What happens

Rumble in the Bronx (Chinese: 紅番區; lit. 'Red Foreigners District') is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, and Bill Tung. The film is about a Hong Kong police officer (Chan) who arrives in the Bronx area of New York City to meet his uncle and comes up against a local gang of street thugs. The film was shot in Vancouver, Canada and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 21 January 1995. A dubbed and re-edited version by American distributor New Line Cinema was released on February 23, 1996, and became Chan's mainstream breakthrough in North America. The film won Best Action Choreography at the 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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