Code Name: Cugar

Code Name: Cugar
Film poster
Traditional Chinese代號美洲豹
Simplified Chinese代号美洲豹
Hanyu PinyinDàiháo měizhōubào
Directed byZhang Yimou
Yang Fengliang
Written byCheng Shiqing
StarringGong Li
Ge You
Liu Xiaoning
Wang Xueqi
CinematographyGu Changwei
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
90 minutes
LanguageMandarin

Code Name: Cugar (also known as Operation Puma[1]) is a 1989 Chinese thriller film. It was co-directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang. Unlike the bulk of Zhang's early works (ranging from 1986's Red Sorghum to 1995's Shanghai Triad), which were all historical pieces, Code Name: Cugar is a modern thriller involving a skyjacked airliner and political intrigue.

The film was made as a private investment by a friend of Zhang, but parts of their initial ideas were censored by the Chinese authorities. In the end, the film broke even but earned no profits. Zhang called it "a purely commercial gun chase film".[2]

Plot

The film follows a commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul that is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the fictional Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Communist authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on the flight, and agree to cooperate discreetly with Taiwanese authorities to defuse an already tense situation.

Cast

Release

According to film historian Tony Rayns, Code Name: Cugar has been released on VHS and DVD in China, but Yimou has been keen on it not being exported.[1]

Reception

The film is generally considered a failure or a footnote to Zhang's general oeuvre; Time referred to the film as Zhang Yimou's last "purely frivolous work."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Rayns, Tony (October 2023). "Film Historian Tony Rayns on Ju Dou". Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li (Blu-ray). Imprint.
  2. ^ Zhang Yimou. Frances K. Gateward, Yimou Zhang, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001, p. 31.
  3. ^ Corliss, Richard (2002-12-15). "In the Mood for Swordplay". Time. Archived from the original on February 20, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-10.


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