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Shanghai Noon (2000)

★ 6.4 · 2,748 ratings on TMDB

The old west meets the far east.

Shanghai Noon poster★ 6.4

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's 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.

DirectorTom Dey
CastAdrien Dorval, Brandon Merrill, Jackie Chan, Jason Connery, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Western
The emergence reading

Shanghai Noon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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