Armour of God (film)

Armour of God
Armour of God
	Hong Kong film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	龍兄虎弟
Simplified Chinese	龙兄虎弟
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lóng Xiōng Hǔ Dì
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Lung4 Hing1 Fu2 Dai6
Directed by	Jackie Chan; Eric Tsang;
Written by	Jackie Chan; John Sheppard; Eric Tsang;
Produced by	Leonard Ho; Chua Lam;
Starring	Jackie Chan; Alan Tam; Lola Forner; Rosamund Kwan;
Cinematography	Peter Ngor; Robert Thompson; Arthur Wong; Cheung Yiu Cho;
Edited by	Peter Cheung
Music by	Michael Lai; Tang Siu Lam;
Production; companies	Golden Harvest; Goldenway Films Ltd.; The Cannon Group, Inc.; Golan-Globus Productions;
Distributed by	Golden Harvest; Media Asia (Hong Kong); Roadshow Films (Australia); Miramax Films (United States);
Release dates	16 August 1986 (Japan); 21 January 1987 (Hong Kong); 9 June 1988 (Australia); 14 September 1999 (United States);
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	US$16 million (est.)

Armour of God (Chinese: 龍兄虎弟; Jyutping: Lung4 hing1 fu2 dai6 lit. 'Big Brother Dragon, Little Brother Tiger') is a 1986 Hong Kong action adventure comedy film starring and directed by Jackie Chan, and written by Chan, John Sheppard and Eric Tsang (who also co-directed). It co-stars Alan Tam, Lola Forner, and Rosamund Kwan.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The film combines Chan's martial arts, comedy and stunts with an Indiana Jones style adventure film theme. It is deemed a cult classic.^{[citation needed]} Chan came the closest he had ever been to death in this film during a relatively routine stunt; he leaped onto a tree from a ledge, but the branch he grabbed snapped, sending Chan plummeting and cracking his skull.^[4]^[5]

The film was the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong at the time,^[6] grossing an estimated US$16,300,000 (equivalent to $45,000,000 in 2023) at the box office in Asia and Europe. It was followed by the sequels Armour of God II: Operation Condor in 1991, and CZ12 in 2012.