Rumble in the Bronx

Rumble in the Bronx
Hong Kong theatrical poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese紅番區
Simplified Chinese红番区
Literal meaningRed Foreigners District
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinhóng fān qū
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinghung4 faan1 keoi1
Directed byStanley Tong
Written by
  • Edward Tang
  • Fibe Ma
Produced byBarbie Tung
Starring
CinematographyJingle Ma
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music by
Production
company
Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed byGolden Harvest (HK)
Release date
  • 21 January 1995 (1995-01-21) (HK)
Running time
106 minutes (HK version)
90 minutes (US version)
Country
Languages
  • Cantonese
  • English
BudgetUS$7.5−13 million
Box officeUS$76 million

Rumble in the Bronx (Chinese: 紅番區; lit. 'Red Foreigners District') is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, and Bill Tung. The film is about a Hong Kong police officer (Chan) who arrives in the Bronx area of New York City to meet his uncle, and comes up against a local gang of street thugs.

The film was shot in was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 21 January 1995. A dubbed and re-edited version by American distributor New Line Cinema was released on February 23, 1996, and became Chan's mainstream breakthrough in North America. The film won Best Action Choreography at the 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards.