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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Name: Big Trouble in Little China
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: fantasy film, comedy film, action film
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 7.2

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they…

Directed by John Carpenter · Shot by Dean Cundey · Cut by Steve Mirkovich · Music by John Carpenter · Ratio 2.35:1 · 99 min

Behind the scenes

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) Behind-the-Scenes Vintage — FilmIsNow Epic Movie Zone · 8 min
Behind the Scenes: Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter, 1986) with Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall — Serious Feather · 15 min
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Featurette - "Vintage" (1986) — JoBlo Behind-the-Scenes + Bloopers · 8 min

Elsewhere

More by John Carpenter

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts — 1962
Terror from Space — 1963
Captain Voyeur — 1969
Dark Star — 1974
Assault on Precinct 13 — 1976
Halloween — 1978
Someone's Watching Me! — 1978
Elvis — 1979
The Fog — 1980
Escape from New York — 1981
Halloween: Extended Edition — 1981
The Thing — 1982
Christine — 1983
Starman — 1984
Prince of Darkness — 1987
They Live — 1988
Memoirs of an Invisible Man — 1992
Body Bags — 1993
In the Mouth of Madness — 1995
Village of the Damned — 1995
Escape from L.A. — 1996
Vampires — 1998
Ghosts of Mars — 2001
The Ward — 2010

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