China O'Brien

China O'Brien (1990)

She is the ultimate weapon.

China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organized crime. When her father, the town sheriff, is killed China decides to run for his position and clean up the town. The poll results spark a series of confrontations that finally decide who runs the town . . .

Date of release
1990-02-01
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (70)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Action, Crime
Director
Robert Clouse
Collection
China O'Brien Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Utah

China O'Brien is a 1990 martial arts film produced by Golden Harvest studios and starring actress and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock with co-stars Richard Norton and Keith Cooke. The film was directed by Robert Clouse, the fight choreography was by Nijel Binns, and it was executive produced by Raymond Chow. Rothrock plays a former cop who runs for sheriff after her father, the previous sheriff, is killed.

Production

Parts of the film were shot in Park City, Utah.

After a career in Hong Kong, Golden Harvest worked to raise Rothrock's profile in her native America, and she was cast in China O'Brien. Film scholar Rikke Schubart says the producers paired her with Richard Norton, who plays her former highschool boyfriend, and made her the daughter of a slain cop to make her more feminine and seem less threatening.

Early in her career, Tori Amos recorded a song "Distant Storm" that can be heard only by viewing the original film. Amos did not want to be credited under her real name and created a fake band, Tess Makes Good, to be credited.

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