San wa (2005)

Director:

Stanley Tong

Writers:

Hai-shu Li (writer)
Stanley Tong (writer)

Release Date:

23 September 2005 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Loyalty | Meteorite | Waterfall | Chinese | Martial Arts

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	General Meng Yi / Dr Jack Chan
Hee-seon Kim	...	Ok-soo
Tony Leung Ka Fai	...	William
Mallika Sherawat	...	Samantha
Ken Lo	...	Dragon
Rongguang Yu	...	Zhao Kuang
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ram Gopal Bajaj	...	The Guru
Min-su Choi	...	General Choi (as Choi Min Soo)
Jason Chong	...	Jack / General Meng-Yi (English Revoice)
Hayama Go	...	Tiger
Kumman Gopakumar	...	Dasar Policeman
Leon Head	...	Dr. Smith
Sasidharan Nair Sajith Kumar	...	Dasar Guard A
Biju Kumman	...	Dasar Policeman
Sunil Kumar Kumman	...	Dasar Guard B
Maggie Lau	...	Maggie
Jing-kei Liang	...	Governess (as Liang Jingke)
Xuetong Li	...	Curator
Karimbil Nidheesh	...	Dasar Policeman
Sudhanshu Pandey
Bing Shao	...	Nangong Yan
Qiao Shun	...	Eunuch
Zhou Sun	...	Mr. Koo
Patrick Tam	...	General Xu Gui
Ken Wong	...	Rebel General Meng Jie
Wei Xing Yao	...	General Shen
Tak Yuen	...	Dasar Monk (as Richard Hung)
Jianzhong Zhang	...	Official

Also Known As:

Shen hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
The Myth (International: English title)
Time Breaker (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Titanium Rain (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality. (edited version; previously rated R for some violence)

Runtime:

Philippines:117 min | Hong Kong:122 min | Canada:118 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

China | Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin | Hindi | Korean | Cantonese | English | Malayalam

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Taiwan:PG-12 | Indonesia:Dewasa | Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG (theatrical) | Philippines:PG-13 | Hong Kong:IIB | Malaysia:U | Germany:16 | Australia:M | USA:PG-13 | South Korea:12 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Anjanadri Hill, Hampi, Karnataka, India

Company:

China Film Group

Trivia:

In the outtakes, Jackie Chan fights with his rival who is on wires, but doesn't use any himself. He overdid a sweep kick and fell off the scaffold about 15 feet to the ground onto a mattress. The outtakes show him falling and climbing back up to do the scene again.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The elephant is named "Lakshmi", which suggest a female. But "she" has small tusks. In Asian elephants, only males have the tusks.

Soundtrack:

Endless Love

Mixture

This is a wonderful movie with a mixture of many cultures in it. Just try and admire this movie and you will notice how they merge everything together. The language used in this movie is of course Cantonese as it is a movie from Hong Kong. Then there's Mandarin and Korean language and also at some parts they spoke Indian (I have no idea it's Hindi or Tamil language). They also communicated in English because they wanted to potray the modern world as English is known as the international language. The actors also come from a variety of races. Though the things that occurred in this movie might seem quite far-fetched, the title "The Myth" explains it all. Whether it's comedy, love, friendship, past, present, technology or wonders, this movie got it all! By the way, the soundtracks match very well with the movie, I just can't stop listening to the theme song "Endless Love" sung by Jackie and Kim.