Police Story
“Why use words to sell this movie when you can just show a picture of Jackie Chan breaking glass in a shopping mall?” —Keenan N, postproduction
Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography—including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass—POLICE STORY set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
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Police Story
Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie CheungThe jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/s...
Extras
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POLICE STORY English-Dubbed Soundtrack
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Jackie Chan: My Stunts
The following excerpts from a 1999 documentary codirected by and starring Jackie Chan offer a master class in stunt coordination and action choreography, as well as the actor-director's personal recollections from the making of POLICE STORY.
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Edgar Wright on Jackie Chan
Here, filmmaker and Jackie Chan fan Edgar Wright discusses his appreciation of Chan and POLICE STORY in a 2019 Criterion interview.
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Edgar Wright: The Talkhouse Podcast
Here, filmmaker and Jackie Chan fan Edgar Wright converses with Chan in the October 12, 2017, episode of The Talkhouse Podcast.
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Becoming Jackie
This 2019 program features Grady Hendrix, author and cofounder of the New York Asian Film Festival, discussing the creation of actor-director Jackie Chan's crowd-pleasing on-screen persona as a comic but stalwart everyman in his role as Chan Ka-kui in POLICE STORY and POLICE STORY 2.
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The King Vs. Kings II
In this segment from a 2017 television program, actor-director Jackie Chan performs his POLICE STORY theme onstage and is reunited with the original members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.
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Jackie Chan on POLICE STORY
This undated interview features actor-director Jackie Chan recalling his work on POLICE STORY.
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Kung Fu Dubbing
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POLICE STORY/POLICE STORY 2 Janus Films Rerelease Trailer
