First Strike (1996)

1996 film by Stanley Tong

Released

10 February 1996

Country

Hong Kong

Language

English, Cantonese

Genre

Martial arts film

Director

Stanley Tong

Screenplay

Stanley Tong, Elliot Tong Ming-Gei

Producer

Raymond Chow, Leonard Ho

Music

Nathan Wang, J. Peter Robinson

Cinematography

Jingle Ma

Editing

Peter Cheung, Yau Chi-Wai

Starring

Jackie Chan, Yuriy Petrov, Bill Tung, Nonna Grishayeva, Annie Wu, Jackson Lau Hok-Yin

Running time

110 minutes

Production company

Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Paragon Films Ltd.

Distributor

Netflix

Box office

$53.2 million

Set in

Hong Kong

Police Story 4: First Strike (Chinese: 警察故事4之簡單任務), also known as First Strike or Jackie Chan's First Strike, is a 1996 Hong Kong action film directed and co-written by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Yuri Petrov, and Nonna Grishayeva. It is the fourth main installment of the Police Story series, and the final film in the series' original timeline before its reboot with 2004's New Police Story.

More films directed by Stanley Tong

• Supercop 1992
• Supercop 2 1993
• Rumble in the Bronx 1995
• China Strike Force 2000
• The Myth 2005

Nominations

• Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography
• Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film
• Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor
• Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer
• MTV Movie Award for Best Fight

Series

• Preceded by: Supercop
• Followed by: New Police Story

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q1144962 (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.