L'impero proibito

Titolo originale: The Forbidden Kingdom
Regia: Rob Minkoff |
Anno: 2008
Origine: China | Hong Kong | United States of America |
Generi: Azione Avventura Fantasy
Tag: martial arts | based on novel or book | temple | legend | villainess | time travel | fistfight | shaolin | tempel | urination | east asian lead | staff | medieval | wuxia | warrior | action hero |
Cast: Jackie Chan | Jet Li | Michael Angarano | Liu Yifei | Li Bingbing | Collin Chou | Morgan Benoit | Jack Posobiec | Thomas McDonell | Juana Collignon | Zhi Ma Gui | Shen Shou He | Bin Jiang | Shaohua Yang | Yu Yuan Zeng | David Will No | Sam Wong Ming-Sing | Shi Xiao Ju | Wang Deshun |

Jason é un ragazzo ossessionato dai kung-fu movie classici di Hong Kong e quando, girando per i negozi di Chinatown, si trova tra le mani un reperto preziosissimo, la spada appartenuta ad un antico imperatore, viene catapultato nell'antica Cina, dove due maestri gli insegneranno l'arte del kung-fu, facendolo combattere al loro fianco per liberare l'imperatore...

Approfondimenti

This movie marked the reunion of Jackie Chan and Action Choreographer Woo-Ping Yuen, after Twin [...] D
Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei) is the name of Pei-Pei Cheng's character in Le implacabili lame di r [...] D
The opening credits features photographs of famous martial arts actors from the famous The Shaw [...] D
Early in the movie, Jason (Michael Angarano) finds the DVD Guangdong shi hu xing yi wu xi (1980 [...] D
Jackie Chan described the first day of shooting as "very relaxing", because the shots only requ [...] D
At one point in the scripting process writer John Fusco suggested making the character of Jason [...] D
At first, the original theatrical trailer revealed the overall story of Michael Angarano (Jason [...] D
Before filming began, the entire cast did a costume fitting and a script read-through. Certain [...] D
Jason Tripitikas' (Michael Angarano's) last name is derived from Tripitaka, the monk who Sun Wu [...] D
The filmmakers intentionally used the traditional Chinese phrase "Gung Fu" in the movie. This c [...] D
In the beginning, when Jason is looking through Hop's DVDs, the song playing in the background [...] D
The artwork and style of the movie's opening credits resembles the style and artwork of opening [...] D
This movie marked the first collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan. However, Chan has sai [...] D
Donnie Yen was turned down for the role of Jade Warlord. D
The working title for this movie was "The J & J Project". D
When the time came to film the cherry blossom scene, the filmmakers were horrified to find the [...] D
Liv Tiefel and Jet Li both starred in Mulan(2020). D
The characters were mostly taken from Chinese mythology and adventure pulps. Lu Yan is a famous [...] D
This movie went through five script re-writes before it was completed, many of which were done [...] D
According to Jackie Chan, when he and Jet Li shot their fight together, they found it relaxing [...] D
This movie was based on the Chinese epic story "Journey to the West", a fictionalized account o [...] D
Jet Li worked with John Fusco on the screenplay and said, "He is a superb screenwriter and has [...] D