Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
1986 film directed by John Carpenter
- Released
- 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Screenplay
- Gary Goldman, W. D. Richter
- Producer
- Larry J. Franco
- Music
- John Carpenter
- Cinematography
- Dean Cundey
- Editing
- Steve Mirkovich
- Starring
- Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Peter Kwong, Al Leong, Diana Tanaka
- Running time
- 99 minutes
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Distributor
- 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Disney+
- Box office
- $11.1 million
- Budget
- $25 million
- Set in
- San Francisco, Los Angeles
Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter's 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.
Cast
- Kurt Russell
- Kim Cattrall
- Dennis Dun
- James Hong
- Victor Wong
- Peter Kwong
- Al Leong
- Diana Tanaka
- Jerry Hardin
- Kate Burton
- Gerald Okamura
- John Carpenter
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- Dan Inosanto
- George Cheung
- Suzee Pai
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q859494 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.