Paper Marriage

Paper Marriage
Film poster
Traditional 過埠新娘
Simplified 过埠新娘
Mandarin Guò Bù Xīn Niáng
Cantonese Gwo3 Fau6 San1 Neong2
Directed by Alfred Cheung
Produced by Choi Wing-cheong
Written by Alfred Cheung
Keith Wong
Starring Sammo Hung
Maggie Cheung
Music by Joseph Koo
Sherman Chow
Cinematography Jimmy Leung
Edited by Peter Cheung
Production
company
Release date
  • 14 April 1988 (1988-04-14)
Running time
 87 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$13,405,571

Paper Marriage is a 1988 Hong Kong action comedy-drama film directed by Alfred Cheung and starring Sammo Hung and Maggie Cheung.

Plot

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 Maggie tries her hand at mud-wrestling.

Production

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]

Cast

References

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