Police Story

Friday, May 8 - Saturday, May 9, 2026

The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography—including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass—POLICE STORY set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

• Country Hong Kong
• Language In Cantonese with English subtitles.
• Year 1985
• Running Time 100 minutes
• Distributor Janus
• Director Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen
• Writer Jackie Chan, Edward Tang
• Editor Peter Cheung
• Cinematographer Yiu-Tsou Cheung
• Cast Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Bill Tung
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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