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Who Am I?
	; Hong Kong film poster for Who Am I?
Directed by	Benny Chan; Jackie Chan
Produced by	Leonard Ho; Barbie Tung
Written by	Jackie Chan; Susan Chan; Lee Reynolds
Starring	Jackie Chan; Michelle Ferre; Yamamoto Mirai; Ron Smerczak; Ed Nelson; Washington Xisolo
Music by	Nathan Wang
Cinematography	Poon Hang Sang
Editing by	Peter Cheung; Yau Chi Wai
Distributed by	Golden Harvest; Columbia Pictures (US and UK)
Release date(s)	17 January 1998
Running time	Hong Kong: 120 mins.; USA: 107 mins
Country	Hong Kong
Language	English; Cantonese
Gross revenue	HK$38,852,845

For other uses of Who Am I?, please see Who Am I? (disambiguation)

Who Am I? (traditional Chinese: 我是誰; simplified Chinese: 我是谁; pinyin: Wǒ Shì Shéi; Cantonese Yale: Ngo Si Sui) is a 1998 Hong Kong martial arts-action film, released by Golden Harvest. It was co-directed by and starred Jackie Chan, who also performed the song that plays over the end credits.

The film is also known under the following alternative titles in some international releases:

Jackie Chan's Who Am I? (USA)
Amnesia (Norway)
Jackie Chan Is Nobody (Germany)

[edit] Plot

A member of a CIA-sponsored multinational black ops special forces unit is on a mission to kidnap several South African scientists working on a highly volatile extraterrestrial compound brought to Earth in a meteorite. According to the computer data showing the names of the participants of the operation, one of them was 'Jackie Chan' (Chan). He falls victim to a staged "incident" which results in the death of his colleagues. He survives, but is subsequently stranded in the African veldt with massive amnesia. When asked by natives for his name, he replies "Who am I?", which they take to be his real name. Experiencing flashbacks hinting at his true identity, 'Who am I?' proceeds to befriend two beautiful women - Christine (Michelle Ferre), a CIA agent working undercover as a journalist, and Yuki (Yamamoto Mirai).

Renegade ex-US Army officers and black market arms dealers are illegally exporting the extraterrestrial compound, and 'Who am I?' is the only potential threat to their operations. Agents are sent out to stop 'Who am I?' before he can expose their criminal activities. He defeats numerous ex-renegade agents, and ultimately engages in a tightly choreographed roof-top fight scene in Rotterdam against Morgan's two top hitmen, and performing the film's signature stunt, sliding down the steeply-pitched glass roof. The CIA secures the villains' arrests, and 'Who am I?' comes to terms with his identity.

[edit] Production notes

Willemswerf building

The film was shot between February and March 1997.
The film contains one of Chan's largest all-car chase scenes, in which his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV flips onto its side, hurls enormous amounts of gravel at pursuers, crashes through fruit stands, bounds down stairs, and causes another car to go sailing off the side of a 4-story parking garage.
During a scene in the movie, there is a wanted poster depicting Chan's character, noting his height as 5'10". Chan's real height is 5'8".
The hotel room number Chan's character stays in is 1954, the year of Chan's birth.
The movie features several Rotterdam landmarks such as the Erasmus Bridge, the Beurstraverse (which was portrayed by the film makers as being in Johannesburg), the Cube houses and the Willemswerf building (which served as the headquarters of the villains and from the side of which, 'Who am I?' escaped by sliding to the ground).

[edit] DVD releases

UK DVD cover

The US DVD release is cut by 9 minutes with the following changes and omissions:

A scene in which 'Who am I?'s special forces unit is double-crossed appears as a black-and-white flashback in the middle of the original film. For the US release, that scene is placed immediately after Chan's unit completes their mission.
'Who am I?'s interaction with the African tribe has been reduced dramatically. Cuts include a scene in which he asks the tribal boy, Baba, how many days it takes to walk to civilization; a scene showing the tribe's farewell ceremony for 'Who am I?'s journey; and a his scene in which he performs an interpretation of the tribal dance.
The rally race scene has been shortened.
A scene where 'Who am I?' recovers feeling in his mouth and explains his situation to Yuki has been cut.
All but two instant replay shots (wherein 'Who am I?' drives through a fruit stand, and where he narrowly escapes falling furniture in Rotterdam) have been deleted.

[edit] Box office

Who Am I? grossed HK $38,852,845 in its Hong Kong theatrical run.

[edit] Awards and nominations

1999 Hong Kong Film Awards
- Winner: Best Action Choreography (Jackie Chan)
- Nomination: Best Actor (Jackie Chan)
- Nomination: Best Film Editing (Peter Cheung, Chi Wai Yau)
- Nomination: Best Picture (Barbie Tung) (executive producer)
- Nomination: Best Sound Design

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Who Am I? at the Internet Movie Database
Who Am I? at Allmovie
Who Am I? related article PodcastOnFire.com

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