---
title: 'Big Trouble in Little China (1986)'
type: 'film'
director: 'John Carpenter'
released: '1986-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 99
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/big-trouble-in-little-china-1986'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

1986 · PG-13 · 99 min · Comedy, Fantasy, Action · United States


## Synopsis

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 American fantasy action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong. The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang's green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named David Lo Pan (Hong), who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to be released from a centuries-old curse.

## Credits

- **Director:** [John Carpenter](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carpenter)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John Carpenter](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carpenter)
- **Screenplay:** [Gary Goldman](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-goldman-2), [W. D. Richter](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-d-richter)
- **Producer:** [Larry J. Franco](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-j-franco)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dean Cundey](https://cinepixo.com/people/dean-cundey)
- **Editor:** [Steve Mirkovich](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-mirkovich)

## Cast

- [George Cheung](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cheung)
- [Gerald Okamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-okamura)
- [Kate Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/kate-burton)
- [Peter Kwong](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-kwong)
- [Diana Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/diana-tanaka)
- [Suzee Pai](https://cinepixo.com/people/suzee-pai)
- [Dennis Dun](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-dun)
- [Dan Inosanto](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-inosanto)
- [Kim Cattrall](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-cattrall)
- [Al Leong](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-leong)
- [Kurt Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/kurt-russell)
- [Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/cary-hiroyuki-tagawa)
- [John Carpenter](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-carpenter)
- [Jerry Hardin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-hardin)
- [James Hong](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-hong)

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