City Hunter [Directed By Wong Jing] [Jackie Chan]

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City Hunter ( Chinese : 城市獵人 ; Jyutping : sing4 si5 lip6 jan4 ) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy film written and directed by Wong Jing . The film stars Jackie Chan , Joey Wong , Kumiko Goto , Chingmy Yau , Gary Daniels , Leon Lai and Richard Norton . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is based on the 1985–91 manga City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo . Chan plays Ryo Saeba, a womanizing private investigator hired to retrieve the wayward daughter of a news magnate. In the process, he and his partner/love interest Kaori (Wong) find themselves on a cruise ship taken over by terrorists. The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong by Golden Harvest on Chinese New Year 1993. Plot Ryo Saeba is a private investigator known as the "City Hunter". His assistant is Kaori Makimura , the younger sister of his late partner Hideyuki, who with his dying words made the womanizing detective swear that he would never seduce her. Saeba and Makimura are hired to locate Kiyoko Imamura, the runaway daughter of the CEO of a prominent newspaper. They are told she is in Hong Kong, but Kaori leaves in the middle of the search, unhappy with the way Ryo ignores her romantic feelings for him and flirts with other women. Ryo finds Kiyoko at a skateboarding park and a chase ensues, but she evades him, stealing a boarding pass for a luxury cruise liner , the Fuji Maru. Ryo sneaks on board the Fuji Maru to pursue the spurned Kaori, who has boarded with her lustful cousin Rocky "Bigfoot" Dung, not knowing that Kiyoko is on board as well. Unbeknownst to all of them, the cruise has been targeted by terrorists led by ex- US Special Forces Colonel "Big Mac" MacDonald, who plan to hijack it and hold the wealthy passengers hostage. Undercover police officer Saeko Nogami and her assistant Kasumi Asou are in pursuit. Staying next door from each other, Kiyoko inadvertently overhears MacDonald's plan. MacDonald discovers her and sends one of his men to kill Kiyoko, who knocks him out and escapes. She then bumps into the ship's first officer, who takes her to the boiler room and reveals himself as one of the terrorists. When he attempts to silence Kiyoko, Ryo, who had been staying there since his encounter with Kaori and her cousin at the swimming pool, saves her. When MacDonald's gang arrive, the officer is killed in the shootout while Ryo and Kiyoko escape into a movie theater and beat two opponents. At the ship's casino, the sailaway party is interrupted when MacDonald kills the captain and terrorizes the partygoers, including Saeko and her sidekick. After robbing them of their valuables, he entices the rich patrons into a sadistic card game. Some opponents are disposed of until Kao Ta, a card gamer who uses his cards as shurikens, joins in. When MacDonald is distracted by seeing Ryo and Kiyoko nearby, Ta and Saeko put an end to his game. MacDonald's right-hand man Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room. When Ryo bursts in, both men fight before MacDonald and his men interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process. Kaori escapes, bumping into Kiyoko, Saeko, Kasumi and Kao. They take down a terrorist trying to seduce Rocky and prepare to save Ryo. Ryo is stood before a firing squad. Kiyoko, Saeko, and Kasumi interrupt the planned execution, but are forced to separate by MacDonald's gang. Kiyoko subdues one henchman, Saeko saves Ta after he runs out of cards in a fight with the terrorists, and Kasumi off a ledge and is left unconscious. Ryo goes into the gaming parlor with his hands still tied, but is thrown into an arcade game by Kim and suffers an electric shock . This causes him to hallucinate and think Kim is Ken from Street Fighter II . After a failed attempt to defeat him as E. Honda , Ryo defeats him as Chun-Li . As a Taiwanese counter terrorism unit, the "Thunderbolts Squad", arrives and take his men out, MacDonald blows up bombs he had set up all over the ship and takes Kaori hostage at the casino. When Ryo and Saeko arrive, he injures both women and starts a fight with Ryo. However, MacDonald is thrown into the stage and dies when he accidentally steps on his remote, setting off the bombs behind the TV panels. Ryo and Kaori find Kiyoko and return to her father. He speaks to Ryo privately, seeing him as a future husband to Kiyoko. Listening to their conversation, Kaori leaves in anger, unaware that Ryo has declined the man's offer. Ryo finds her and tries to apologize with a rose, but then Saeko drives up and flirts with him. He gives her the rose instead and furious, Kaori smashes him with a hammer. Ryo wakes up in his recurring dream, surrounded by women at a swimming pool. Cast Jackie Chan as Ryo Saeba ( Chinese : 孟波 ; pinyin : Mèng Bō ) Joey Wong as Kaori Makimura ( Chinese : 惠香 ; pinyin : Huì Xiāng ; 'Carrie Imamura' in the English-language dub) Leila Tong as Kaori as a child Kumiko Goto as Kiyoko Imamura ( Chinese : 今村清子 ; pinyin : Jīncūn Qīngzi , translated in some versions as 'Shizuko Imamura') Chingmy Yau as Detective Saeko Nogami ( Chinese : 芽子 ; pinyin : Yá