Paper Marriage

Paper Marriage (1988)

過埠新娘

Love was never supposed to be part of the deal.

Set in Canada, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer Bo Chin (Samo Hung) accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman Jade Lee (Maggie Cheung) so she can get Canadian 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 Jade tries her hand at mud-wrestling!

Date of release
1988-03-31
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Action, Comedy, Romance
Director
Alfred Cheung Kin-ting

Casting

Interesting facts

Paper Marriage 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 14 April 1988.

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.

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

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