CZ12
| Chinese Zodiac 12 | |
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| Traditional | 十二生肖 |
| Simplified | 十二生肖 |
| Mandarin | Shí Èr Shēng Xiāo |
| Cantonese | Sap6 Ji6 Sang1 Ciu3 |
| Directed by | Jackie Chan |
| Produced by | Jackie Chan Stanley Tong Barbie Tung |
| Written by | Jackie Chan Stanley Tong Frankie Chan Edward Tang |
| Screenplay by | Jackie Chan |
| Starring |
Jackie Chan Kwon Sang-woo Liao Fan Helen Yao Zhang Lanxin Laura Weissbecker |
| Music by | Jackie Chan (singer) Roc Chen Nathan Wang |
| Cinematography | Jackie Chan Horace Wong Ng Man-ching Ben Knott Yip Siu-ching Ng Man-chuen |
| Edited by | Yau Chi-wah |
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| Distributed by |
Emperor Motion Pictures Jackie & JJ Productions (Worldwide) Universal Pictures (U.S.) |
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Running time
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123 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong China |
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Cantonese Mandarin English Spanish French Arabic Tamil Malayalam Hindi |
| Budget | 160 million yuan (US$26,000,000) |
| Box office | 879 million yuan (US$145,000,000) |
CZ12 (Chinese: 十二生肖), also known as Chinese Zodiac, is a 2012 Hong Kong-Chinese action film co-produced, written, directed by, and starring Jackie Chan. The film is a pseudo-reboot of a film franchise that began with Armour of God (1987) and its sequel, Armour of God II: Operation Condor.
Released in December 2012, the film went on to gross over US$145 million at the Chinese box office. Chan also earned two Guinness World Records with the film for "Most Stunts Performed by a Living Actor" and "Most Credits in One Movie".
The film won Best Action Choreography at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards.
The movie begins by Jackie Chan telling the story of the Old Summer Palace and its looting and destruction by British and French soldiers in the Second Opium War. Among the treasures stolen are twelve bronze heads of the animals of the Chinese zodiac.
In the present day, the bronze heads are auctioned for millions of euros each. The main company supplying the bronze heads and other stolen relics is MP Corporation. JC (Jackie Chan), is tasked by MP Corp to find the remaining lost bronze heads, with a promise of a 10 times bonus if he can recover all of them. JC visits a man named Professor Guan, who had created 12 identical replicas for study purposes with his team of researchers, under the pretense that he is a reporter named Martin from National Geographic. When left alone, JC scans the multiple bronze Zodiac animal heads using special gloves so that his secret organisation can replicate an extremely realistic model of them. After scanning, he goes to Paris to find a woman named Coco, recommended by Professor Guan, for more information on the whereabouts of two bronze heads.
JC, along with his partners Simon (Kwon Sang-woo), David, and Bonnie, infiltrate a mansion to find two of the bronze heads. JC manages to decode the password to a top secret vault and finds two bronze heads, a painting called "The Roses", along with many other valuable national treasures thought to be lost inside. JC's cover is soon busted but he manages to evade capture with all the valuables. However, he is spotted by Coco. Having no time to explain himself, he tells Coco to meet him at a boat house while fleeing from the mansion's security. At the boat house, Martin tells Coco that he is working for a secret corporation that is trying to recover all the lost relics for China. The guards from the mansion storm the boat house and try to attack JC. However, the police is called in and they are all arrested. JC, Coco and Simon are cleared of any wrongdoing and are released.
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