The Accidental Spy
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| Traditional | 特務迷城 |
| Simplified | 特务迷城 |
| Mandarin | Tè Wù Mí Chéng |
| Cantonese | Dak6 Mou6 Mai4 Sing4 |
| Directed by | Teddy Chan |
| Produced by |
Jackie Chan Raymond Chow |
| Written by | Ivy Ho |
| Starring |
Jackie Chan Eric Tsang Vivian Hsu Wu Hsing-kuo |
| Music by | Peter Kam |
| Cinematography | Horace Wong William Yim |
| Edited by | Kwong Chi-leung |
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| Distributed by | Golden Harvest (HK) Dimension Films (USA) |
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108 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language |
Cantonese Mandarin English Korean Turkish |
| Box office | HK$30,009,076.00 |
The Accidental Spy is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts action film, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Teddy Chan. Filming took place in Seoul, Hong Kong, Istanbul and Cappadocia, Turkey.
Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English, particularly during communications between the Chinese characters and the Korean and Turkish characters. Despite having a fairly serious and dark plot in some parts, it still features some humour, as is typical of Chan's films.
A news reporter covers a story in a village within Turkey where many people have mysteriously died, seemingly from pneumonia while a scientific team tries to find a cure. Unbeknownst to them, a terrorist group disguised as farmers in the area fire at the scientists and the news crew, killing them all. Shortly after the attack, members of the South Korean embassy in Istanbul discuss the attack before one of their longtime missing agents return.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan (Jackie Chan) works as an exercise equipment salesman. After an unsuccessful day at work, he eats at a shopping mall and intuitively suspects that a robbery is about to take place. Jackie thwarts the robbers plans and attracts much media attention for his actions. Later, a stranger approaches Jackie, eager to speak to the hero who foiled the robbery. The stranger goes by the name of Manny Liu and he tells Jackie that he is rounding up several men of Jackie's age and description, one of whom could be the son of a wealthy Korean man known as Park Wong Jung (aka Mr. Park), who is looking to leave his fortune to his real son. After getting beaten up by his debtors, Jackie saves Manny and brings him back to his apartment. Manny directs Jackie to an associate for an interview. As a child, Jackie had been an orphan, but he has vague dreams of his parents cooing over him, with his father clutching a shiny object.
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