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Paper Marriage

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Paper Marriage
Film poster
Traditional Chinese過埠新娘
Simplified Chinese过埠新娘
Hanyu PinyinGuò Bù Xīn Niáng
JyutpingGwo3 Fau6 San1 Neong2
Directed byAlfred Cheung
Written byAlfred Cheung
Keith Wong
Produced byChoi Wing-cheong
StarringSammo Hung
Maggie Cheung
CinematographyJimmy Leung
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music byJoseph Koo
Sherman Chow
Production
companies
Release date
  • 14 April 1988 (1988-04-14)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
English
Box officeHK$13,405,571

Paper Marriage (Chinese: 過埠新娘; Jyutping: Gwo3 Fau6 San1 Neong2) is a 1988 Hong Kong action comedy film directed and co-written by Alfred Cheung, and starring Sammo Hung and Maggie Cheung. It was released by Golden Harvest on April 14, 1988.

Plot

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In the United States, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer named Bo Chin accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman named Jade Lee 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 boxing ring and Jade tries her hand at mud wrestling.

Cast

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Production

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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]

Yuen Wah and Lam Ching-ying were the film's action directors.

References

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  1. ^ "Guo bu xin lang (1988)". Guo bu xin lang. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
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