Hong Kong 2003, 35mm, 90.42 minutes, Colour, 1:1.85, Stereo Dolby SR, Chinese Language (with English subtitles)
Director
Mabel Cheung
Executive Producer
Alex Law
Associate Producer
Doris Tse
Director of Photography
Arthur Wong
Sound
Kinson Tsang
Editor
Maurice Li
Researchers
Henry Ng(Hong Kong), Heman Peng(Hong Kong), Cheung Wing Hung(Britain), Wang Biao (China)
Music
Henry Lai
Digital Re-mastering
Asia Legend Limited
SYNOPSIS
An intimate and moving feature-length 35mm documentary covering the touching and history-filled background of this international action star. A look at Jackie Chan as we have never seen him before.
Jackie Chan knows all the tricks of movie magic, but it’s only two years ago that he learned about his family and himself.
The Hong Kong-born superstar has always thought that he was born to a simple family, with a hard-working father and a soft-spoken mother, in poverty stricken Hong Kong in the 1950s. He thought that he was his parents’ only child, and that his surname was Chan. When his mother’s health was failing, his father decided to tell him the true story of the family: his parents’ backgrounds were anything but simple; he has some lost brothers and sisters in China; and his real surname was not even Chan!
This film traces the story of Jackie Chan and his lost family, and pieces together the extraordinary childhood that he and his siblings experienced. As we go deeper into the jigsaw puzzle, we discover that Jackie’s father was a spy for the Nationalist Party in Chiang Kai-shek’s regime, and that his mother was far from a simple housewife. We also witness the sadness of young children being abandoned by their helpless families during that turbulent period when China was experiencing the two World Wars, the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists, and the tragic Cultural Revolution that changed heaven and earth.
And in the end, we realize that this is not just the story of Jackie Chan and his family. This is the story of almost every Chinese family during that unfortunate period in Chinese history.
