The Forbidden Kingdom
Director: Rob Minkoff
Genre: Martial arts, Adventure, Action, Wuxia, Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Romance Film, Period piece, Fantasy Adventure, Chinese Movies
Year: 2008
Country: United States of America, China, Hong Kong
Language: English Language, Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese
Starring: Jackie Chan, Liu Yifei, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, Li Bingbing, Jacky Wu, Morgan Benoit, Thomas McDonell
The Forbidden Kingdom (Chinese: 功夫之王: Gong Fu Zhi Wang (Mandarin) or Gung Fu Ji Wong (Cantonese) and translated is King of Kung Fu (English); Working title: The J & J Project) is a 2008 Chinese-American martial arts action adventure film from The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate. Written by John Fusco and directed by Rob Minkoff, it is the first film to star together two of the best-known names in the martial arts film genre, Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The action sequences were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping.
The film is distributed in the United States through The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate, and through The Huayi Brothers Film & Taihe Investment Company in China. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the USA and Hong Kong on 9 September 2008 and in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2008.
In this film, which is based loosely on the ancient Chinese novel Journey to the West, South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas is a fan of martial arts films and he awakens from a dream of a battle between the Monkey King and celestial soldiers in the clouds. He visits a pawn shop in Chinatown to buy Wuxia DVDs and discovers a golden staff. On his way home, Jason is harassed by some hooligans, who
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