Project A (1983) on Netflix
Sergeant Dragon Ma serves in the Marine Police, which fights pirates raiding ships around late 19th century Hong Kong. When its ships are blown up, his squad joins the regular police.
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Plot summary
Pirates have been raiding ships around Hong Kong for months, and Sergeant Dragon Ma serves in the Marine Police, the force tasked with stopping them. Rival members of the Marine Police and the Hong Kong Police Force fight in a bar. Two Marine Police ships are then blown up, and Dragon's squad is reassigned to the regular police, where Hong Tin-tsu, Captain Chi's nephew, puts the men through hard training. Gangsters Chiang and Mr. Chou discuss fleeing to Vietnam, and one of the pirates who sabotages the ships tells Chiang that his employer, San Pao, wants a hundred police rifles. Dragon and Hong Tin-tsu go to the VIP Club to arrest Chiang.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Project A (1983)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jackie Chan performed the clock tower fall himself in Project A, hanging and dropping from the hand of the tower some 60 ft high, tearing through awning canopies before hitting the ground; he did it three times because he was unhappy with the first two.
- While shooting the bicycle chase in Project A, Chan was told that E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was playing at a local cinema, so he halted filming to watch the bicycle chase in E.T.'s finale and make sure his scene was not the same as Steven Spielberg's.
- Jackie Chan's end-credit bloopers were so popular with Japanese audiences that Japanese film companies demanded the inclusion of "NGs" ("no good" shots) in the distribution contracts for all his films, regardless of director.
- Project A was the first time veteran Michael Lai used orchestral music for a film score, instead of using library music or lifting the score from other films.
- Emperor Showa of Japan was reportedly so fond of Project A and so eager to see a sequel that it led Jackie Chan to make Project A Part II.
- At the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards, Jackie Chan's work on Project A brought him his first Best Actor nomination and his first Best Action Choreography win.
