Supercop (1992) Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat (original title)

Director:

Stanley Tong

Writers:

Edward Tang (characters)
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Release Date:

26 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

There's never a cop around when you need one, but when this cop's around, all you need is one.

Plot:

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Plot Keywords:

Undercover | Prison | Police | Drug Lord | Organized Crime

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	Insp. Chan Ka Kui
Michelle Yeoh	...	Insp. Jessica Yang, Director of INTERPOL (as Michelle Khan)
Maggie Cheung	...	May
Kenneth Tsang	...	Chaibat (as Ken Tsang)
Wah Yuen	...	Panther
Bill Tung	...	'Uncle' Bill Wong
Josephine Koo	...	Cheng Wen Shi, Chaibat's Wife
Kelvin Wong	...	Peter (as Wong Siu)
Philip Chan	...	Insp. Y.K. Chen
Ken Lo	...	Chaibat's man (as Lowei Kwong)
Lieh Lo	...	The General (as Lit Law)
Wai Shum
Yee San Hon
Sze Tsuen Wai
Tuan Wai-Lun
Wong Yue Man
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chi Ming Liu
Wei-min Tan	...	Scar Chiang
Sek Chan	...	Panther's Man (uncredited)
Mars	...	Panther's Man (uncredited)
Kim Penn	...	Blonde Gunwoman (uncredited)
John Wakefield	...	Interpol Officer (uncredited)
Ming-Sing Wong	...	PRC Chief Coach Wang (uncredited)

Directed by
Stanley Tong

Writing credits
Edward Tang		(characters)
Edward Tang		(written by) and
Fibe Ma		(written by) and
Lee Wai Yee		(written by)

Produced by
Jackie Chan	....	executive producer
Willie Chan	....	producer
Leonard Ho	....	executive producer
Edward Tang	....	producer

Original Music by
Mac Chew
Jenny Chinn
Jonathan Lee

Cinematography by
Ardy Lam		(as Lam Kwok Wah)

Film Editing by
Kar Fei Cheung
Peter Cheung		(as Cheung Yiu Chung)

Production Design by
Oliver Wong		(as Yui Man Wong)

Art Direction by
Yiu-Kwong But

Makeup Department
Shui-Lin Lo	....	makeup artist
Law Kar Wei	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Lloyd Chao	....	post-production supervisor
Mario Landeros	....	post-production supervisor
Peggy Lee	....	production manager
Barbie Tung	....	production supervisor
Venus Wong	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Chan Hay Ben	....	assistant director (as Ken Chan)
Johnny Lee	....	assistant director
Bo-San Lo	....	assistant director
Kwok-Wing Yip	....	assistant director

Art Department
Stanley Tong	....	martial arts choreographer

Sound Department
Beth Bergeron	....	supervising adr editor
Paul Berolzheimer	....	sound effects editor
Dean Beville	....	supervising sound editor
Peter S. Carlstedt	....	foley mixer (as Peter Carlstedt)
Thom 'Coach' Ehle	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Stephanie Flack	....	adr editor
Greg Hedgepath	....	sound editor
William Jacobs	....	sound effects
Erick Jolley	....	sound effects editor
Doc Kane	....	adr mixer
Jeffrey Kaplan	....	adr editor
Patricio A. Libenson	....	sound recordist
Christian P. Minkler	....	additional sound mixer (as Christian Minkler)
Sergio Reyes	....	sound re-recording mixer
Joan Rowe	....	foley artist
Sean Rowe	....	foley artist
B. Tennyson Sebastian II	....	sound re-recording mixer
Charles Ewing Smith	....	sound effects editor
D. Chris Smith	....	sound effects editor
Scott Weber	....	foley mixer
Bob Wishnefsky	....	assistant sound editor

Special Effects by
Bruce Law	....	special effects coordinator

Stunts
Jackie Chan	....	stunt coordinator
Man-Ching Chan	....	stunts
Bruce Law	....	car stunt coordinator
Bruce Law	....	stunt coordinator: fire sequences and body burns
Ming-Sing Wong	....	action choreographer (as Sam Wong)
Jackie Chan	....	stunt actor (uncredited)
Rocky Lai	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bruce Law	....	stunts (uncredited)
Mars	....	stunts (uncredited)
Stanley Tong	....	additional stunt double: Jackie Chan (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Perry Ho	....	focus puller

Casting Department
Barbara Harris	....	adr voice casting

Editorial Department
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Rod Dean	....	editorial consultant
Paul Martinez	....	assistant editor
William Pine	....	color timer (as Bill Pine)

Music Department
Peter Afterman	....	music consultant
Craig Pettigrew	....	music editor
Scott Pettigrew	....	assistant music editor
Ray Santamaria	....	music supervisor
Ronny Vance	....	additional music consultant
Robert Scott Crane	....	music engineer (uncredited)

Other crew
Man-Ching Chan	....	action choreographer
Karen Huie	....	dialect coach
Jim Lau	....	adr voice
Pony Mok	....	script supervisor
Richard Potter	....	production executive
Andrew Rona	....	production executive
Ailen Sit	....	action choreographer (as Chun-Wai Sit)
Tang Tak Wing	....	action choreographer
Garson Yu	....	title designer

Production Companies

• Golden Harvest Company
• Golden Way Films Ltd.

Distributors

• Golden Harvest Company (1992) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Media Asia Distribution
• Swift Distribution (1994) (France) (theatrical)
• Alliance Communications Corporation (1996) (Canada) (as "Supercop") (dubbed)
• Criterion Collection, The (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Criterion Collection, The (1997) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Dimension Films (1996) (USA) (dubbed)
• Dimension Home Video (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2000) (Netherlands) (VHS) (as "Supercop")
• Echo Bridge Home Entertainment (2011) (USA) (DVD)
• IDA films (2010) (Spain) (DVD)
• VPS Film-Entertainment GmbH

Other Companies

• Cine Art Laboratory  film processing
• Filmtech Camera Services  equipment provided by (as Technovision Serviced by Filmtech)
• Salon Films  equipment provided by (as Salon Films Equipment Rental)
• Showreel Film Facilities  sound post-production

Also Known As:

"Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat" - Hong Kong (original title)
"Police Story 3: Super Cop" - Hong Kong (English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence

Runtime:

95 min | USA:91 min | Spain:87 min (DVD edition) (US version)

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | English | Mandarin | Malay | Thai

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Canton, China

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

The first Hong Kong action film to use synchronized sound. However, on the 2009 region-1 DVD released by Dragon Dynasty/The Weinstein Company, when Jackie Chan discusses this in an interview, the subtitles transcribe the audio incorrectly.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Plywood laid across the gap between two train cars to extend the landing area for the motorcycle jump.

Quotes:

Chan Ka Kui:This is hard to memorize.
Insp. Jessica Yang:You're a super cop, and you have no memory?
Chan Ka Kui:It's the first I came across this situation. If I were you, could you recite everything in one go? I'm Chan Ka Kui, born July 4th, 1958. I joined the Royal HK Police in 1981. 19 - ...
Insp. Jessica Yang:1984, promoted to trainee inspector. Height: 5'10", weight: 73 kilos, blood type: AB. I'm nothing special. I've memorized your background.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Torque (2004)

Soundtrack:

MADE NIGGAS

Mr. Chan: more like this; less like the Americans, please!

This is a really fun movie. Jerry Bruckheimer could learn a thing or five from Stanley Tong. I can only give it 8 out of 10 because it's not exactly deep, y'know? It is light as a feather, but it's also fun, fun, fun -- far more interesting and surprising than any "action" film I've seen out of Hollywood in a long, long time, all of which have seemed to me to be recycling the same script, plot, characters, and score to desperation. (Beats me how people could shell out eight bucks a pop to see Enemy of the State aka Mercury Rising aka Absolute Power...when they could rent Supercop for two bucks and actually see something unexpected.)

Of course, this film stars Jackie Chan being his usual goofy self, deftly making his extraordinary skills as a martial artist, stuntman, and physical comedian look as natural as breathing, but the other amazing talent in this piece is exhibited by the fantastic stuntwoman Michelle Yeoh (aka Michelle Khan), the same woman who for the first time blew away many Western moviegoers in Tomorrow Never Dies.

I think this woman is made entirely of rubber and springs. Most of her stunts in this movie are actually scarier and more daring than most of Chan's, and some of the most brutal took more than one take. And she did a lot of them in a dress!

Fortunately, she is also in the sequel to this, Supercop II. It's seven years old, and I can hardly wait to rent it. (When was the last time you were in a hurry to see an action flick almost ten years old?) Too bad I can't say the same for Rush Hour, which I had to click off after less than 10 minutes because Chan's co-lead character was such an obnoxious idiot.

I really hope Hollywood learns from Chan and his Hong Kong associates, and not the other way around. Indicators are not positive. Keep your fingers crossed. Meanwhile, watch Supercop and enjoy something fresh.