Treasure Hunt | |||||||||||||||
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Director: | Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||||||
Producer: | Linda Kuk | ||||||||||||||
Screenplay: | Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||||||
Starring: | Chow Yun-fat Jacklyn Wu Chin Han Gordon Liu Michael Wong Philip Kwok Roy Chiao | ||||||||||||||
Music: | Danny Chung | ||||||||||||||
Cinematography: | Peter Pau | ||||||||||||||
Editing: | Hai Kit-wai David Wu | ||||||||||||||
Studio: | Eastern Renaissance Pictures | ||||||||||||||
Distributor: | Golden Princess Film Production | ||||||||||||||
Runtime: | 106 minutes | ||||||||||||||
Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
Language: | Cantonese Mandarin English Japanese | ||||||||||||||
Gross: | HK$37,033,685 |
Treasure Hunt is a 1994 Hong Kong action comedy and romantic fantasy film written and directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Chow Yun-fat and Jacklyn Wu.
Chinese American CIA operative Jeffrey Cheung Ching (Chow Yun-fat) was ordered to escort a Chinese national treasure to the United States. Cheung goes from America to Beijing where he stays at the Shaolin temple. There, he encounters conflicts due to culture barriers and different life habits. However, he became friends with Abbot Hung Chi (Gordon Liu) and a seven-year-old monk Grasshopper (Choi Yue). Cheung is later surprised to find out that the so-called national treasure is a para psychological girl named Siu-ching (Jacklyn Wu). During the process of exposing the evil sinister, Cheung and Ching develop a romance.
The film grossed HK$37,033,685 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 29 January to 16 March 1994 in Hong Kong.