Railroad Tigers

Railroad Tigers is a 2016 Chinese action comedy film directed by Ding Sheng and starring Jackie Chan. It was released in China on December 23, 2016. The film is about a railroad worker who leads a team of freedom fighters to oppose the Japanese during the occupation in World War II. The film performed well at the box office. Plot In December 1941, Japan expands the occupation of its neighbouring countries to Southeast Asia. The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Railroad worker Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) leads a team of freedom fighters. Using his deep knowledge of the train network, he and his men sabotage it, ambushing Japanese soldiers and stealing supplies to feed the starving Chinese. Although the freedom fighters have no weapons of their own, they employ whatever tools are at hand, including a hammer and shovels, loose railway track planks and diverted trains. The local Chinese call the unlikely heroes the “Railroad Tigers”. The freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when the Japanese send reinforcements to Shandong. In an act of defiance, Ma Yuan launches his most dangerous mission yet, blowing up a heavily guarded railroad bridge. When the Japanese learn of the crippling plan, which will derail the war effort, the stakes are raised even higher. After many missed opportunities and missed shots, the bridge is blown up by the ragtag Chinese railroad tigers. Cast Jackie Chan as Ma Yuan Huang Zitao as Da Hai Wang Kai as Fan Chuan Darren Wang as Da Guo Sang Ping as Dakui Xu Fan as Auntie Qin Jaycee Chan as Rui Ge Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Captain Yamaguchi (Japanese: 陸軍大尉山口, Rikugun-Tai-i Yamaguchi) Zhang Lanxin as Yuko Andy Lau as School Teacher (cameo) Production The budget of the film is . The film had railway sequences shot in Diaobingshan using steam trains.