Miracles: The Canton Godfather

"Meet the original gangster!"

1989 2h 6m CN

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7.1

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★7.1TMDB · 188

CrimeActionComedyDrama

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A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

“Meet the original gangster!”

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Cast

Jackie Chan
Charlie Chen-Wah
Anita Mui Yim-Fong
Yang Luming
Gua Ah-leh
Lady Rose / Ms. Kao
Richard Ng Yiu-Hon
Chief Inspector Ho
Ko Chun-Hsiung
Tiger Lo
Sunny Fang Kang
Boss Pai
Bill Tung Biu
Conman Tung
Tien Feng
Ku Hsin-chuan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jackie Chan
Writers: Jackie Chan, Edward Tang
Languages: Cantonese
Countries: Hong Kong

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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AWARDS

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Directed by Jackie Chan, shot by Arthur Wong Ngok-Tai. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Su Cong. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Jackie Chan and Anita Mui Yim-Fong and Gua Ah-leh carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Meet the original gangster!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0098019 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jackie Chan directs. Arthur Wong Ngok-Tai behind the camera. Su Cong scores. Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung cuts. Produced in Hong Kong. Dialogue in Cantonese.

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137 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Jackie Chan, shot by Arthur Wong Ngok-Tai. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Su Cong. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Jackie Chan and Anita Mui Yim-Fong and Gua Ah-leh carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Meet the original gangster!".
7IMDB entry: tt0098019 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Released under 23 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Arthur Wong Ngok-Tai
Original score: Su Cong
Editing: Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung
Costume design: Shirley Chan
Makeup / hair: Chan Wing-Yee
Runtime: 126 min · 2h 6m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $4,343,604
Original language: CN
IMDB: Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989)

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CrazyJekyll2025-06-16
★ 10/10
Miracles is easily Chan's most ambitious and most accomplished film as a director. Wonderfully blending his classic slapstick action-comedy style with grand lavish sets, and an ambitious gangster-romance storyline that shows some of the best storytelling from Chan. And despite the plot after the 1st hour being a bit overstuffed, Chan's continous character development going from puppet boss into someone with his own agency and his own decisions, (that were brought out by the well acted Anita Mui's character) just heavily entertain and make up for a lot of the film's struggle to balance all of its messages and storylines. Not to mention the action sequences here by Chan are also some of the best we've ever seen. Rivaling even his greatest action sequences in Police Story and the like. He showcases remarkable framing, use of environment, intricate co-operative choreography with his opponents, and insane displays of agility and skill. I mean come on, at one point he did a tornado kick, spinning hook kick, and sweep kick all in one quick succession and one take. That is just fucking insane. Again, to me this is easily Chan's most ambitious and most accomplished work, all of it just combines into one grand and lavish gangster-romance-action-comedy-period drama that just so full of fun that it's hard not to admire.

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