It is the Ming Dynasty and Chaos reigns. There are many Kung-fu masters from different regions that are fighting ruthlessly for a mysterious treasure map hidden inside the Ming palace. Amidst such combat, the map unexpectedly disappeared. Five of the Kung-fu masters trace the map’s location to a small village and there they disguise themselves as ‘ordinary’ people among the villagers in hope of finding the map. Among them are a Mongolian Warrior and a Japanese Ninja, posing as a married couple in the village. On the surface, the five masters are friendly loving neighbours however they are actually very cunning and competitive trying to outdo each other to be the first to locate the map. One day their wealthy landlord reveals that he possesses the map which sparks an explosive chain of events in this once small and ordinary village.
We've been tracking the progress of Tracing Shadow - the kung fu comedy with Jaycee Chan that marks a rare directorial effort from veteran character actor Francis Ng - for a good while now, teased along by a very brief teaser and scraps of information and now the full trailer has arrived. Response has been quite mixed from those who have seen the picture but I'm thinking the trailer looks like a whole lot of fun. Check it out below the break!
Looks fun, chinese humour is a bit 50/50 with me, but when it works it truly works.
Todd, Ng has been directing films (though sparsely) for a long while now. And he's done good work too - 9413, his actual directorial debut from 1998 is one of the most underrated and overlooked films from HK there are.
Trailer looks nice.
Aw, you can see the Jackie Chan inside him in this film. Should be a film starring Colin Hanks and Jaycee Chan.
Oh good god. The Jaycee parodying his dad bit was funny, but the rest of the footage makes this film look like utter trash along the lines of the Twins Effect 2. Do NOT want.
francis ng makes his trash with passion and pride! this looks glossier than his other stuff (dancing lion, what's a good teacher.) must've hooked up with some spiffy mainland connexion! usually there's 1 or 2 scenes of genuinely inspired, even tour de force improv buried in an otherwise over-frantic trash-vaganza, served up in francis' trademark neurosis-fueled quirks. just be patient:)
it was a stupid trailer but the movie looks fun. A little comedy like in the old days af kung fu films.
a realy lucky foward to see this movie
My mistake on the first directorial film thing. Thanks for the catch, guys.
"must’ve hooked up with some spiffy mainland connexion!"
He did. Look at the opening. This is Hua Yi funded.
IMHO, Francis Ng ain't a character actor any more--he's been a leading man for at least ten years now. That said, he's one of the quirkiest leading men in Asia, no doubt.
looks pretty impressive. fine kinetic action, nice authentic medieval fantasy look. even the humor, agree with the 50/50 remark, it looks well done here, in a sort of modernized Jacky Chan meets Stephen Chow way. Jacky Jr looks promising if the film is as good as the trailer.