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From Beijing With Love (Chinese: 國產凌凌漆) is a 1994 Hong Kong spy comedy film directed by Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-chi. The film is a very direct spoof of the James Bond films.

From Beijing with Love
Hong Kong film poster
Traditional	國產凌凌漆
Cantonese	gwok3 caan2 ling4 ling4 cat1
Directed by	Stephen Chow Lee Lik-chi
Written by	Stephen Chow Roman Cheung\Vincent Kok Lee Lik-chi
Produced by	Charles Heung Jimmy Heung
Starring	Stephen Chow Anita Yuen Law Kar-ying Lee Lik-chi
Cinematography	Lee Kin-keung Tom Lau
Edited by	Ma Chung-yiu
Music by	William Hu
Production company	Win's Movie Production Ltd.
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	14 September 1994 (1994-09-14)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$37,523,850.00

Synopsis

Golden Gun steals the cranium of China's only dinosaur fossil. Chow, starring as a hawker-secret-agent 007, is sent to Hong Kong by a high-ranking government official to recapture the cranium. When he arrives in Hong Kong, he meets Lee Heung-kam (Anita Yuen), who proposes to help him in his endeavour. However, Heung-kam turns out to be a subordinate of Golden Gun. Golden Gun is in actuality the government official who directs 007 to find the cranium.

Golden Gun instructs Heung-kam to send 007 on a false lead and tells him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler. 007, with the help of Heung-kam, sneaks into a cocktail party held by the smuggler. Before he enters, he tells Heung-kam that he will fetch her some white roses. Heung-kam tells 007 to find evidence that the smuggler stole the cranium; meanwhile, Heung-kam hides in a tree, planning to snipe 007 from afar. The party is interrupted by a mysterious man (modelled after Jaws from James Bond) and a mysterious woman who are out to kill 007. Taking this opportunity, Heung-kam shoots 007 several times, including once in the leg with 007 thinking another assassin has shot him. 007 (who is wearing a bulletproof vest but not bulletproof trousers) escapes, grabbing three white roses on the way out. Heung-kam is touched by this gesture and saves his life. She decides to defect from Golden Gun. Together, the two destroy the organisation that is behind the theft of the cranium. 007 eventually wins the hand of Heung-kam and is rewarded with a meat cleaver emblazoned with the calligraphy of Deng Xiaoping.

Cast

• Stephen Chow as Ling-ling-chat (Homophonic pun of '007' in Cantonese)
• Anita Yuen as Lee Heung-kam
• Law Kar-ying as Tat Man-sai (another Homophonic pun of Leonardo da Vinci, transliterated in Cantonese)
• Pauline Chan as mystery woman
• Lee Lik-chi as man about to be executed/martial arts master
• Wong Yat-fei as man about to be executed
• Yu Rongguang as Chinese agent killed by Golden Gun
• Lee Kin-yan as Regent Motel's manager
• Yip Chun as Deputy Commander Chan
• Leung Hak-shun as Lai Yau-wai
• Spencer Leung as man about to be executed
• Johnny Dang Siu-Juen as man about to be executed
• Raymond Tsang as man from Hunan
• Joe Cheng Cho as Metal Death Killer (clearly based on Jaws from Moonraker)
• Indra Leech as guard
• Wong Kam-kong as Golden Gun, masquerading as Yuen, Ling's Commander
• Jerry Ku as firing squad commander
• Chow Yee-Fan as bald waiter
• Quinton Wong Liu-Che as photographer
• Wong Kar-Leung as soldier
• So Wai-Nam as soldier
• Tang Tai-Wo as soldier
• Lam Kwok-Kit as soldier
• Chung Wing as soldier
• Wong Shiu-Keung as hotel clerk
• Lo Gwok-Wai as firing squad soldier

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Salutation to other films

• The name of the film in Chinese means "the domestically-produced 007".
• The scene where Stephen Chow drinks a dry martini is a reference to a scene from Chungking Express, where Tony Leung Chiu Wai drinks coffee.
• The scene where Stephen Chow meets Anita Yuen wearing a green blouse in the park feeding dogs is a direct reference to a scene in the film C'est la vie, mon chéri, also featuring Anita Yuen.
• The name of the "ultimate weapon" invented by Da Wen Xi, 要你命3000 (Lifetaker 3000), is also the name of a Hong Kong, low-budget blue movie.
• The scene where the camera pans slowly around a room of various James Bond posters to focus on Stephen Chow combing his hair and admiring himself in the mirror is a parody of the last scene of Days of Being Wild, in which Tony Leung prepares to go out. The music used is the same.
• The Universe Laser DVD cover (pictured on right) of the movie parodies that of the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights.
• The Golden Gun's signature weapon is a spoof of the golden gun used in the James Bond novel The Man with the Golden Gun. Unlike the one from the James Bond series, this one shoots out extremely powerful explosive bullets instead of a one-hit fatal fragmentation bullet.

Music

The song Stephen Chow sang while playing the piano is 李香蘭 (Lǐxiānglán; the chinese name of Yoshiko Yamaguchi) by Jacky Cheung, a Chinese-language adaptation of the 1989 Japanese song "Ikanaide" (行かないで) by Kōji Tamaki.

Box office and reception

The film grossed HK$37,523,850 in Hong Kong and has garnered positive reviews in Taiwan as well. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 50%, based on 6 reviews.[4]

Award nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result
1995	14th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actor	Stephen Chow	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Law Kar-ying	Nominated

References

External links

• From Beijing with Love at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• From Beijing with Love at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• From Beijing with Love at lovehkfilm
• From Beijing with Love at chinesemov.com
• From Beijing with Love at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] From Beijing with Love

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[ru] Из Китая с любовью

«Из Китая с любовью» (кит. 国产凌凌漆, дословно «007 отечественного производства») — гонконгская кинокомедия 1994 года, снятая режиссёрами Стивеном Чоу и Лик-Чи Ли. Картина пародирует серию фильмов о Джеймсе Бонде[1], к которой имеются многочисленные отсылки, начиная с названия (отсылка к фильму «Из России с любовью») и заканчивая известными злодеями «Бондианы» (Человек с золотым пистолетом и Челюсти)[2]. Кроме того, присутствую отсылки и к другим известным фильмам — так, сцены с перестрелками выполнены в стиле боевиков Джона Ву, а кровавые фонтаны и отрывание конечностей заимствованы из комедии «Монти Пайтон и Священный Грааль»[3].

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