Hong Kong Synopsis
“The old west meets the far east.”
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
Audience Engagement
2,299 audience reviews — more than 98% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 92th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Shanghai Noon. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Adventure + Action in Hong Kong
81 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Adventure and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Shanghai Noon itself).
The 1999–2001 Hong Kong Window
Shanghai Noon holds position #23 of 42 Hong Kong films in the 1999–2001 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Shanghai Noon premiered alongside 14 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 50m runtime, production spent $500K per minute on screen and earned $902K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 14 other Hong Kong films in 2000.
The 504th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Shanghai Noon, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- native american · 2
- sioux · 1
- cowboy · 1
- duringcreditsstinger · 26
- action hero · 25
- princess · 22
- travel · 21
- chinese · 17
- rescue · 13
- good versus evil · 9
- martial arts · 369
- 19th century · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #361 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (57th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Hong Kong Adventure productions specifically: #41 of 91 (top 45%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | English, Mandarin, Spanish |
| Production Companies | Roger Birnbaum Productions, Spyglass Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures |
| Runtime | 1h 50m |
| Release Date | May 26, 2000 |
| IMDb | tt0184894 |