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Shanghai Noon
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Shanghai Noon is a film|movie that opened May 23, 2000. It was followed by Shanghai Knights.
Shanghai Noon won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Lucy Liu.
The film combines the Buddy cop film|Buddy Cop film genre with the Western movie|Western film genre, the former because the storyline involves two men of different personalities and ethnicities (a Chinese imperial guard and a Western outlaw) who team up to stop a crime (in this case, rescue a princess), and the latter since most of the action takes place in the milieu of the "Old West".
This movie is about Chon Wang, who is an imperial guard of China. After the princess, Pei-Pei, is abducted and taken to United States|America, he is sent with others to find her and bring her back. Roy O'Bannon is an outlaw who ends up hijacking the train Wang is on. When a member of his gang kills Wang's uncle, Roy and Wang get into a fight, which throws them both from the train. Through a series of events, Roy and Wang become friends and help retrieve the princess.
- Jackie Chan .... Chon Wang
- Owen Wilson .... Roy O'Bannon
- Lucy Liu .... Princess Pei Pei
- Brandon Merrill .... Falling Leaves
- Roger Yuan .... Lo Fong
- Xander Berkeley .... Nathan Van Cleef
- Tom Dey
- Miles Millar
- Alfred Gough
- Gary Barber (I) .... producer
- Roger Birnbaum .... producer
- Jackie Chan .... executive producer
- Willie Chan .... executive producer
- Jules Daly .... co-producer
- Ned Dowd .... co-producer
- Jonathan Glickman .... producer
- Bruce Moriarty .... associate producer
- Solon So .... executive producer
- http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0184894/ IMDB entry on Shanghai Noon
Category:2000 films
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