Traces of a Dragon

Traces of a Dragon Chinese aka Traces of a Dragon Jackie Chan and his Lost Family is a 2003 documentary film directed by Mabel Cheung. The film explores the touching and historyfilled background of Jackie Chan as we have never seen him before.

Jackies career did not take off at first, and the endless succession of bit parts and stunt jobs led him to consider emigrating to Australia to rejoin his parents. But Canberra offered only work on construction sites and in kitchens, and in 1976 he responded enthusiastically to the offer of a contract with the newly founded Lo Wei Film Company in Hong Kong, which starred him in a series of lowbudget martial arts adventures. He then became a local superstar in two movies directed by the nowlegendary Yuen WooPing, Snake in the Eagles Shadow and Drunken Master, both made in 1978.Meanwhile, his parents in Australia were taking advantage of Chinas stabilising political situation to set about tracing the longlost children they had been forced to leave behind when they fled to Hong Kong. Lily found her daughters with no great difficulty, and Guilan emigrated to Australia to look after her mother when she fell ill. Chan ChiLong eventually traced his two sons with the help of the Chinese Ambassador to Australia a fellow native of Shandong, and had a reunion with them in Guangzhou in 1985. Both had suffered victimisation in Maos Cultural Revolution of the mid1960s, and both were having difficulty in adjusting to life in the era of Deng Xiaopings economic reforms. Eventually, in the late 1990s, Chan ChiLong was able to convene a gathering in Anhui of his extended family. He revised and restored the Fang family register, proudly adding the name of his Hong Kongborn son Jackie Fang Shilong. ........

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