Jackie Chan movie with nude scenes?

[Dennis Thompson]

About 5 years or so ago I watched a Jackie Chan movie that had a nude
scene, and I am trying to figure out which movie it was. Obviously it
was originally for the Hong Kong market and re-released in the States at
a later date, many of his Hong Kong films are more adult in nature. The
small video store I rented it from has closed, so I can't go and look it
up.

The scene in question took place at a drug dealer's 'factory', where
Asian women were packing bags of cocaine in the nude so they couldn't
take samples home. When Jackie and company busted the place, the women
climbed up a ladder to escape, with nicely gratuitous low angle camera
shots up the ladder.

Looking through the IMDB at some of Jackies's 90 films, I note that
"Supercop" was originally released in Hong Kong in the early 90's and in
the US in 1996. That seems about the right time frame. It was originally
titled in Chinese and called "Police Story III" in 1992 for the UK,
which seems like the Chinese title. The synopsis sounds like it could be
the film. Anyone know for sure which film the scene was in? Purely from
a serious research standpoint, you understand (cough, cough).

Dennis

[steve]

Post by Dennis Thompson
Purely from
a serious research standpoint, you understand (cough, cough).

Yea. I hear you do a lot of "research".

:^)

steve

[Lincoln Spector]

He does a nude scene, from behind, in First Strike. A dubbed, shortened
version was released in the U.S. as Jackie Chan's First Strike. It was rated
PG-13, despite the nude scene.

The nude scene is actually quite funny. He's forced to strip at gun point in
a tourist attraction parking lot. As he's standing there, a tour group
comprised entirely of old ladies walks by, and one of them runs back to take
a photo.

Adult? I had no problems showing this movie to my 7-year-old. She knows what
a butt looks like, and appreciated the humor of the scene.

It's actually one of my favorite Chan's. I own a Hong Kong DVD of it
(purchased from HKFlix.com) with the original version on one side and the
American cut on the other.

Lincoln

Post by Dennis Thompson
About 5 years or so ago I watched a Jackie Chan movie that had a nude
scene, and I am trying to figure out which movie it was. Obviously it
was originally for the Hong Kong market and re-released in the States at
a later date, many of his Hong Kong films are more adult in nature. The
small video store I rented it from has closed, so I can't go and look it
up.
The scene in question took place at a drug dealer's 'factory', where
Asian women were packing bags of cocaine in the nude so they couldn't
take samples home. When Jackie and company busted the place, the women
climbed up a ladder to escape, with nicely gratuitous low angle camera
shots up the ladder.
Looking through the IMDB at some of Jackies's 90 films, I note that
"Supercop" was originally released in Hong Kong in the early 90's and in
the US in 1996. That seems about the right time frame. It was originally
titled in Chinese and called "Police Story III" in 1992 for the UK,
which seems like the Chinese title. The synopsis sounds like it could be
the film. Anyone know for sure which film the scene was in? Purely from
a serious research standpoint, you understand (cough, cough).
Dennis

[W. Lydecker]

If not the original version of Police Story 3, perhaps the first
version of DRAGONS FOREVER. Do you recall Michelle Yeoh driving a
motorcycle on top of a moving train? Or Jackie; Samo, and a wacko Yuen
Biao battling a shark like Benny "the Jet" et al, at a factory?

[Lknafc]

Post by Dennis Thompson
The scene in question took place at a drug dealer's 'factory', where
Asian women were packing bags of cocaine in the nude so they couldn't
take samples home. When Jackie and company busted the place, the women
climbed up a ladder to escape, with nicely gratuitous low angle camera
shots up the ladder.

Pretty sure the film you're looking for is The Protector with Jackie Chan and
Danny Aiello. I only recently saw the uncut version of this and the naked
factory workers took me by surprise! My sister was modelling in Hong Kong at
the time and was an extra in this film and explained how the nude scenes were
often cut, especially for television showings. And no, she was NOT one of the
nude workers, she was in an earlier party scene (when the girl gets kidnapped).

LK

[Paula J. Vitaris]

Lknafc (***@aol.com) wrote:
: Pretty sure the film you're looking for is The Protector with Jackie Chan and
: Danny Aiello. I only recently saw the uncut version of this

It is The Protector -- the U.S. version.

Saying it's "uncut" is not exactly accurate, although it does have footage
and bad language not in the Hong Kong version.

Jackie thoroughly disliked The Protector and re-fashioned his own version
for the Asian market. He cut the nudity and bad language (can't verify the
language since I don't know Cantonese but the subtitles don't have
obscenity in them). :) Then he added an entirely new subplot with a new
female character and expanded the role for one of the bad guys, which
cleared up some plot holes, and also added an entirely new fight in a gym
plus re-shot some of the other action scenes, esp. the one with Bill
Wallace.

It's worth getting the HK DVD to see the new stuff, esp. the gym fight and
the re-shot fight with Bill Wallace. Cutting the nudity doesn't affect the
story.

-- Paula

[Lknafc]

Post by Paula J. Vitaris
It is The Protector -- the U.S. version.
Saying it's "uncut" is not exactly accurate, although it does have footage
and bad language not in the Hong Kong version.

That's it, that's what it was . . . my sister never got to see the uncut
version until she was back in the U.S., that's why we rewatched it, that's when
we finally saw the nude scenes. It was supposed to be the movie that would
launch his career in America, but of course it didn't work out that way. Just
as well!

LK

[Paula J. Vitaris]

Lknafc (***@aol.com) wrote:
: That's it, that's what it was . . . my sister never got to see the uncut
: version until she was back in the U.S., that's why we rewatched it, that's when
: we finally saw the nude scenes. It was supposed to be the movie that would
: launch his career in America

Actually they tried to launch his career in the U.S. earlier in 1980 with
The Big Brawl but that went over as big as The Protector did five years
later. :)

The best thing about The Protector is that Jackie hated it so much that he
decided he would show that world how he would make a police movie if he
were in charge, and thus gave the world a true classic: Police Story.

So there is reason to be grateful for the existence of The Protector. :)
Plus the gym fight in Jackie's revamped version is pretty good. ;)

-- Paula

[Lknafc]

Post by Paula J. Vitaris
Actually they tried to launch his career in the U.S. earlier in 1980 with
The Big Brawl but that went over as big as The Protector did five years
later. :)

Very true! Which begs the question . . . why did it take so long for Jackie
Chan to become widely recognized and appreciated in the States? Bad timing?
Disinterest in Asian films in general? Any thoughts?

LK

[John Harkness]

Post by Lknafc

Post by Paula J. Vitaris
Actually they tried to launch his career in the U.S. earlier in 1980 with
The Big Brawl but that went over as big as The Protector did five years
later. :)

Very true! Which begs the question . . . why did it take so long for Jackie
Chan to become widely recognized and appreciated in the States? Bad timing?
Disinterest in Asian films in general? Any thoughts?
LK

Crappy presentation in a disreputable genre.

You have to remember that for a long time martial arts films in
general were generally regarded as a lumpenprole entertainment not
worthy of serious consideration. All you had to do was look at the
theatres in which they were shown. Chinese martial arts pictures were
dumped in inner city grindhouses I got my initial education in kung fu
movies at the old Rialto theatre in Ottawa, where movies were three
for $.65, and they changed the bill two or three times a week. I then
started picking up stuff in New York on 42nd St.

Also, American distribs didn't do much to help their product -- they'd
have lousy, to the point of ludicrous dubbing, be recut to the point
of incomprehensibility, and sent out with crappy scores that had been
bought at someone's yard sale.

It might have been different had Bruce Lee lived -- Enter The Dragon
was a sensation in its day. There was no star to follow him in the
west.

Which left Jackie Chan to try to break into American movies, and
producers, frankly , had no idea what to do with him, how to present
him -- they didn't realize that he was either the Gene Kelly or the
Buster Keaton of kung fu, and they didn't realize what he was capable
of, so they'd second bill him to Danny Aiello, and take a couple of
days to shoot a fight scene that would take a week to shoot in one of
his HK films.

People who were "serious" about movies didn't take these films
seriously -- something like King Hu's Touch of Zen was viewed as an
aberration rather than as the tip of a sizable iceberg, and even then,
I think people had trouble with flying characters.


John Harkness

[Kilroy Bass]

Post by Dennis Thompson
The scene in question took place at a drug dealer's 'factory', where
Asian women were packing bags of cocaine in the nude so they couldn't
take samples home. When Jackie and company busted the place, the women
climbed up a ladder to escape, with nicely gratuitous low angle camera
shots up the ladder.

The Protector, costarring Danny Aiello. It was a 1980's film, so
obviously there has to be nudity. FYI, Beaver shots.

[KING B MAN]

Any info on Chan film called All in the Family?
Apparently, he does soft core porn.
Mike
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