Jackie chan and his partner are two Hong Kong cops chasing bank robbers through an amusement park in Japan. Jackie's partner disappears. Jackie calls for help.... his old orphanage buddies, who are now low-rent crooks, with Sammo Hung the gangleader. Then Chan is missing for fifty minute, while the others hector Police Inspector Sibelle Hi like they're the SIx Marx Brothers or the Crazy Gang.
Clearly Chan is there for his old buddy Sammo. His marquee value is enormous, but he's only got a few days of shooting between his other projects, so he's dropped in strategically, and always in serious mode; ; there are several other comics in the company, fighting for screen time, including some jokes about secual harassment and a character than has gone out of style in the last third of a century. Jackie does get a bravura sequence, moving through a haunted house in the amusement park, with bad guys popping out to kill him, like FBI training at Hogan's Alley'; he must not shoot any of the exhibits because he only has a few bullets in his revolver.
This being a movie set in a foreign land -- it is Japan, after all -- they setting a setting shot to let the audience know this is Japan. So they shot a lot of it at the Fujikyu Highland amusement park..... with a beautiful view of Mt. Fuji dominating the sky line.
Clearly Chan is there for his old buddy Sammo. His marquee value is enormous, but he's only got a few days of shooting between his other projects, so he's dropped in strategically, and always in serious mode; ; there are several other comics in the company, fighting for screen time, including some jokes about secual harassment and a character than has gone out of style in the last third of a century. Jackie does get a bravura sequence, moving through a haunted house in the amusement park, with bad guys popping out to kill him, like FBI training at Hogan's Alley'; he must not shoot any of the exhibits because he only has a few bullets in his revolver.
This being a movie set in a foreign land -- it is Japan, after all -- they setting a setting shot to let the audience know this is Japan. So they shot a lot of it at the Fujikyu Highland amusement park..... with a beautiful view of Mt. Fuji dominating the sky line.