Top billed cast

1. 

   Wang Baoqiang

   Ah Gui

2. 

   Liu Haoran

   Qin Fu

3. 

   Chow Yun-Fat

   Bai Xuanling

4. 

   White-K

   Zheng Shiliang

5. 

   Zhang Xincheng

   Bai Zhenbang

6. 

   Yue Yunpeng

   Fei Yanggu

7. 

   John Cusack

   Grant

8. 

   Tai Bo

   Uncle Si

9. 

   Wang Yutian

   Ren Wu

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-02-01

At times this is actually quite a fun spoof along the lines of "Sherlock Holmes" meets "Charlie Chan" by way of "High Noon" but for the most part it's a mess of a film that goes on for far too long. With the Manchu court facing the great powers we saw in "55 Days at Peking" (1963) the Empress Dowager dispatches her finest officer to San Francisco to track down a traitor. As it happens, the Holmesian "Fu" (Haoran Liu) is also in that very city on a quest for the killer of the daughter of senator "Grant" (John Cusack). Quite swiftly his investigation and the imperial mission start to overlap as ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Chinese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$500,282,092.00

Keywords

• san francisco, california
• chinatown
• prequel
• murder
• buddy comedy
• 1900s
• action comedy
• 20th century