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    Big Trouble in Little China

    Movie » Big Trouble in Little China released on July 02, 1986.

    Kurt Russell stars as truck-driving, tough-guy Jack Burton in this mystical action adventure comedy Kung-Fu monster ghost story film about the imaginary world under Chinatown where ancient Chinese ghosts and evil spirits dwell.

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    Big Trouble in Little China last edited by Cosmic Cube on 01/21/23 07:01AM View full history

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    Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one.

    Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.

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    This movie is a spectacular and underrated hit and remains one of my favorite films that I have to watch at least once a year. Just because.I think that Big Trouble in Little China was simply a decade or so ahead of it’s time with foreign martial arts movies and Japanese anime and manga that are just now beginning to be tapped by receptive American audiences.Big Trouble is one of those movies that don’t really slot neatly into a singular category; it’s got some wonderful comed...

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