Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography—including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass—POLICE STORY set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/s...
The following excerpts from a 1999 documentary codirected by and starring Jackie Chan offer a master class in stunt coordination and action choreography, as well as the actor-director's personal recollections from the making of POLICE STORY.
Here, filmmaker and Jackie Chan fan Edgar Wright discusses his appreciation of Chan and POLICE STORY in a 2019 Criterion interview.
Here, filmmaker and Jackie Chan fan Edgar Wright converses with Chan in the October 12, 2017, episode of The Talkhouse Podcast.
This 2019 program features Grady Hendrix, author and cofounder of the New York Asian Film Festival, discussing the creation of actor-director Jackie Chan's crowd-pleasing on-screen persona as a comic but stalwart everyman in his role as Chan Ka-kui in POLICE STORY and POLICE STORY 2.
In this segment from a 2017 television program, actor-director Jackie Chan performs his POLICE STORY theme onstage and is reunited with the original members of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.
This undated interview features actor-director Jackie Chan recalling his work on POLICE STORY.
