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Shanghai Nights

Shanghai Knights
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by David Dobkin
Produced by Roger Birnbaum
Gary Barber
Jonathan Glickman
Written by Alfred Gough
Miles Millar
Based on Characters
by Alfred Gough
Miles Millar
Starring Jackie Chan
Owen Wilson
Donnie Yen
Aidan Gillen
Fann Wong
Tom Fisher
Kim Chan
Music by Randy Edelman
Cinematography Adrian Biddle
Edited by Malcolm Campbell
Production
company
Touchstone Pictures
Spyglass Entertainment
Birnbaum / Barber Productions
Jackie Chan Films Limited
All Knight Productions
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date
  • February 7, 2003 (2003-02-07)
Running time
110 minutes
Country United States
Hong Kong
Language English
Budget $50 million
Box office $88.3 million

Shanghai Knights is a 2003 American-Hong Kong action comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson.

In 1887, Chon Lin (Fann Wong) is drinking tea with her father (Kim Chan), the Keeper of the Imperial Seal of China, in the Forbidden City. She tells him her brother, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), is doing well as a sheriff in Carson City, Nevada, but her father replies that her brother is dead to him. At that moment, Lord Nelson Rathbone (Aidan Gillen), leads a band of Boxers into the city, who attack the Keeper. Despite Lin's efforts, her father is killed and the seal is stolen. With his last breath, he gives Lin a box and tells her to give it to her brother.

Meanwhile, Chon Wang is doing well as sheriff, having captured an impressive array of fugitives. His deputy is relaxing with a book called "Roy O'Bannon Vs. The Mummy", a highly fictionalized account of the events of the first film that now portrays Wang's "Shanghai Kid" as a cowardly sidekick, which Wang is dismayed. Wang receives a parcel, which contains the puzzle box and Lin's letter, telling him their father is dead and that she has tracked the murderer to London.

Chon Wang travels to New York City to find his old partner Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), needing his share of the gold left over from the first film to buy his ticket. Roy has left his brief stint in law enforcement, broken off his romance with Falling Leaves, spent most of the gold investing in the Zeppelin (in truth, he lost all of the gold on his novels), and is now a hotel waiter and part-time gigolo. After they attempt prostitution to pay for a trip to the United Kingdom, the Mayor of New York arrives in search of his daughters, Roy's latest clients. Chon Wang fights off a number of New York police officers, and he and Roy ship themselves to London in a crate. On the way, Wang tells Roy about his father, and Roy swears an oath to help reclaim the seal.


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