Paper Marriage (Chinese: 過埠新娘) is a 1988 Hong Kong action comedy-drama film directed by Alfred Cheung and starring Sammo Hung and Maggie Cheung.
Paper Marriage | |
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Traditional | 過埠新娘 |
Simplified | 过埠新娘 |
Mandarin | Guò Bù Xīn Niáng |
Cantonese | Gwo3 Fau6 San1 Neong2 |
Directed by | Alfred Cheung |
Written by | Alfred Cheung Keith Wong |
Produced by | Choi Wing-cheong |
Starring | Sammo Hung Maggie Cheung |
Cinematography | Jimmy Leung |
Edited by | Peter Cheung |
Music by | Joseph Koo Sherman Chow |
Production companies | Golden Harvest Bo Ho Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | HK$13,405,571 |
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Set in the United States, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer named Bo Chin (Sammo Hung) accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman named Jade Lee (Maggie Cheung) so she can get American citizenship. They realize too late that they have been set up in a complicated plan to cheat them out of the woman's money. Their adventures begin when Bo is forced back into the ring and Jade tries her hand at mud wrestling.
Although Paper Marriage is set in Los Angeles, California, the film was shot in Edmonton, Alberta. The opening sequence was shot at Northlands Park, while the final action sequence being shot at the West Edmonton Mall.[1]
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