Shanghai Express

Starring: Yuen Biao Director: Sammo Hung

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Dolby Digital 5.1 - Cantonese, English
• Mono - Cantonese
• Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Materials:

• Audio Commentary - Bey Logan
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes - "Trailblazer"
• Interviews - 1. Sammo Hung - Star
                    2. Yuen Biao - Star
• Trailers

Product Description:

Mix the dizzy confusion of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD with director Sammo Hung's kung-fu stylings and a mythical Chinese West complete with cowboy hats, clapboard towns, and steam locomotives and the result is SHANGHAI EXPRESS. At the center of the plot is a train loaded with wealthy passengers and a trio of Japanese hoping to smuggle an important document out of the country. The train becomes the target of a motley assortment of thieves, bandits, and ex-cons, each with their own get-rich-quick scheme. As the cops and criminals stumble over one another, the film marches steadily to its conclusion--an all-out, everyone-for-themselves battle royale. The cast is a who's who of Hong Kong comedians and stars, most associated with Golden Harvest studio. The martial arts sequences are top-notch (the acrobatic Yuen Biao nonchalantly jumps off a two-story building as if it's an everyday thing), and the plot is an object lesson in how Hong Kong directors can borrow from Hollywood to create schizophrenic, enjoyable cinema.

Plot Synopsis:

SHANGHAI EXPRESS is an all-star Hong Kong comic Western set in China.

Plot Keywords:

All-Star | Comedy | Martial Arts | Spoof | Theatrical Release | Western

Exerpts:

"You have nothing else better to do than being a bandit? Don't do it again!" -- Chin Fong-tin (Sammo Hung) to Bandit (Cynthia Rothrock)

Production Notes:

• Theatrical release: January 1, 1986 (Hong Kong).
• SHANGHAI grossed HK $28.1 million, making it the second highest grossing film in Hong Kong that year, behind A BETTER TOMORROW.
• Sammo Hung received the worst injury of his career while filming SHANGHAI. He exposed his shoulder bone and couldn't work for eight months after the injury.

Cast and Crew: