Chan may refer to:
Chinese Chán is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on Dharma practice and meditation, and is a precursor to Zen Buddhism.
Francis Chan (born 1967) is an American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA, a church he and his wife started in 1994. He is also the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College and author of the best-selling book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, which came out in 2009. He released his second book Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit in August 2009. He also sits on the board of directors of Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impact.
Chan is known for speaking at major national and international events and conferences.
Chan and his wife founded Cornerstone in 1994 with only 30 people. Within two months, the church had grown to 100 people, and by 2000, Chan was leading a $1 million project to provide for the 1,600 member congregation. Cornerstone is now one of the largest churches in Ventura County, California.
In 2005, Francis was the featured speaker in a now international video called Stop And Think (JustStopAndThink.com) which virally travelled, landing in every state and 30+ countries.
Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE (born Chan Kong-sang, 陳港生; 7 April 1954) is a Hong Kong-born Chinesestuntman, actor, and director whose perilous acrobatic stunts and engaging physical humour made him an action-film star in Asia and helped to bring kung fu movies into the mainstream of American cinema. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts. Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1960s and has appeared in over 100 films.
Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a cultural icon, Chan has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. An operatically trained vocalist, Chan is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. In addition to acting, Chan pursued a career in the Hong Kong music industry, releasing a number of original albums beginning in 1984. He founded the Jackie Chan Charitable Organization in 1998, which, among other projects, offers scholarships to Hong Kong youths, and he worked as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
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In Jungle Village, the leader of the Lion's clan Gold Lion is summoned by the Governor and assigned to protect his gold that will be transported through the village. However he is betrayed and murdered by the greedy Silver Lion and Bronze Lion. Gold Lion's favorite son Zen Yi, a.k.a. The X-Blade, seeks revenge and heads to Jungle Village, but he is defeated by Brass Body and rescued by the local Blacksmith Thaddeus. Meanwhile the Gemini Female and the Gemini Male protect the Governor's gold, but they are vanquished by the army of Silver and Bronze Lion. The Blacksmith is abducted by the Lions and has his arms severed by Brass Body. However he is saved by the British Jack Knife, who is the emissary of the Emperor, and he manufactures iron arms for Thaddeus. Meanwhile the Governor sends the Jackal army to fight against the Lions and they hide the gold in the brothel of Madam Blossom. However, Madam Blossom and his girls form an army of black widows and together with Jack, Zen Yi and The Blacksmith, they fight against the Lions.
Keywords: actor-director-writer, altered-version-of-studio-logo, arm-cut-off, army, assassin, axe, bar, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, bathtub
Seven clans, a fortune in gold. Let the battle begin.
They put the F.U. in Kung Fu
You can't spell Kung Fu without F and U.
[from trailer]::The Blacksmith: When you forge a weapon, you need three things: the right metal, temperatures over fourteen hundred degrees... and someone who wants to kill. Here in this village, we got all three.
[from trailer]::Madame Blossom: [to her students] Power belongs to no one, until it is seized through sex or violence.
[from trailer]::Lady Silk: Everyone's so afraid of these men. Are you?::Jackknife: No.
[from trailer]::Chan: Some pleasure, before business?::Jackknife: For me, this business is the pleasure.
[from trailer]::Madame Blossom: Gentlemen, warriors, we'll see who's left standing and who's on their knees...
[from trailer]::Gold Lion: Attack!
[from trailer]::Jackknife: I always bring a gun to a knife fight.
Jackknife: I came here for the duck.
The Blacksmith: When it comes to money, things get funny.
Madame Blossom: [to Jackknife] If you damage my girls... [grabs his scrotum and squeezes] I damage your boys.
There's the right way... There's the wrong way,.. And then there's...
Chan, the legend of the beach is alive.
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Dr. Patrick Stowe runs a private fertility clinic that has recently celebrated its 2000th live birth. His business is successful and he is passionate about helping his patients. His home life is less than successful, however. Driven by work, he seems to care more about his patients than his own family. His wife has left him and his two teenage children are on the verge of giving up hope that he will ever be a real dad to them. In the world of the fertility, many couples are desperate to have a child. It puts a strain on their relationships and forces many to compromise their beliefs in order to attain their goal. Some will pay any amount and make any sacrifice to have a child.
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In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the first time unwittingly switches bodies with a terrorist. Forced to hide in a limited life span cloned body with just 2 days remaining, he races against time to stop the terrorist and regain his body.
Keywords: assault, big-business, body-swap, business-manager, clone, cyberpunk, false-identity, female-nudity, futurism, hitman
Out of Time. Out of Bodies.
Fisk 2: [Fisk's mind is currently in Toffler's body] You're breaking your arm!::Toffler 3: I don't feel a thing
Fisk 2: [Fisk's mind is currently in Toffler's body] What are you going to do? Shoot you
Fisk 3: [Fisk's mind is now in Toffler's cloned body] Weird Stewie
Fisk: Oh, I'm a dead man!
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Jack Grimes is a martial arts expert who has been chosen as a the leader of one of four teams for an upcoming martial arts tournament to take place on a remote island. Despite his wife's pleads not to compete, Jack forms his team but finds trouble in the form of rival team leader Sam Slater, who works for crime lord Ivan. When Rick, a hired gun for Slater, is betrayed by the gangster and is left for dead, he joins Jack's team and now, the stage is set on the island for the Ultimate Game.
Keywords: abduction, action-hero, beach, beating, beefcake, beefcake-martial-arts, brutality, cage-fight, cage-fighting, catfight
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The film describes historical events in the life of the heroine, Suriyothai, the queen of King Mahachakrapat. from the age of 15, ranging from love and attachment, royal wedding, resettlement in the capital, court life, intrigues, and sustenance of royal dignity.
Keywords: 1500s, 1520s, 1530s, 1540s, 16th-century, archery, ayutthaya-thailand, battle, betrayal, blood
Siam. 1528. A woman warrior changed the course of history.
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A study of the career of Ah Kam, the plot is divided into three sub-plots. The first is a behind-the-scenes look at a stunt company. Ah Kam progresses from stunt extra to action director under the tutelage of, and then with growing independence from, director Master Tung. In chapter two, Ah Kam falls in love with a rich playboy businessman. Ah Kam is downgraded into playing a fancy-coiffed karaoke club hostess and a male adornment. And then she meets her replacement adornment. Chapter three is a wild triad.
Keywords: behind-the-scenes, hong-kong, kung-fu, martial-arts, stuntwoman, title-directed-by-female
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An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?
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Two dim-wited street pedlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Palm Beach, Florida looking for a better and wealthy lifestyle when Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running a shelter for orphaned children which is threatened with forclosure. Jack, at Barney's insistance, enrolls both of them at a finishing school to learn the edicate of the upper classes in order to fit in and hope Oliva's uncle will approve of Jack wanting to marry her and help her obtain an inheretence to save the orphanage.
Keywords: airboat, chauffeur, con-man, costume-ball, dinner, fake-vomit, fencing, finishing-school, hedge-maze, high-society
The Whoopee Boys have a thing or two to show to high society.
Doing all the wrong things in all the wrong places.
Humping: I'm Humping, the butler.::Barney: Oh, yeah? So who's fucking the maid?
Barney: I wanted to thank you for only giving me the clap. These days it's refreshing to meet a girl with curable diseases.
Roy Raja: My name is Roy Rahmataj.::Barney: Hey, mind if we call you Roy Raja? Haha!::Roy Raja: You may call me "Lion of Kashmir".::Barney: And you may call me "The Boner of East L.A."
Barney: Who's this? Your son?::Adm. Storey: No, he's... uhhh::Mrs. Storey: He is my nephew.::Barney: Ohhh, your nephew. He looks Iranian to me. You know my sister, Maria, she married an Iranian guy. And they are hairy son of a bitches. You know they got hair on their chest, their backs, their butts. We're talking Winnie the Pooh. We're talking Chewbacca, you know the guy in Star Wars who goes AHHHH! AHHHH!
Henrietta Phelps: Why don't we go around the room and introduce ourselve, and tell everyone why you came to the Phelps School?::Eddie Lipschultz: Hi! My name is Eddie, Eddie Lipschultz. I'm here because my mom's new boyfriend says I can't sleep in her bedroom anymore. I figured if I came to charm school, I might be able to... , there might be chance that I'd... , I could possibly...::Barney: [interrupting] Get laid?::Barney: [Eddie nods] I thought so.
Barney: [at a party Barney walks up to an older woman, holding a small white poodle. He makes sounds like a dog in pain] Awww, is that mean old lady squeezing your genitals?::Woman with Dogs: Oh! You dreadful man!
Barney: [at another party, Barney sees the same old lady, now holding a Shar-Pei in her arm] Hey, it's my favorite dog lady again! How you doing? You have a new dog?::Woman with Dogs: Yes, this is a Shar-Pei; it's a Chinese dog.::Barney: [Barney pulls on the dog's wrinkled skin] Damn, you need to iron this dog, lady. Look at this!::Woman with Dogs: No, stop, that's just how the dog is!::Barney: Shit, you could fit two dogs in here! [he continues to pull on the dog's loose skin]::Woman with Dogs: [Slapping Barney's hand away] No! Please, stop abusing my dog, you horrible man!::Barney: You have any Vietnamese neighbors?::Woman with Dogs: No, I don't think so.::Barney: Well, if any ever move in, and you go on vacation, believe me, you're going to want to take Fluffy with you! You'll come back and your dog will be missing it's hind leg, saying 'where were you?'::Woman with Dogs: Oh! That's horrible! You terrible, horrible man!::Barney: You go next door and talk to your neighbor, and he'll be standing there, picking his teeth, 'No! We no see Fluffy! What your dog look like? Your dog have big, juicy hind leg?'::Woman with Dogs: Oh, you awful man! Please, go away!::Barney: Fine! I guess this means we can't be pals no more?
Roy Raja: [exit from the bathroom] There are two toilets in there.
Barney: [enters the bathroom] How has shit in the bidé?
Roy Raja: [to Lipshultz] Shitlips my friend! We have a saying in my country: "He who does not ram the goose, strokes the goat", if you know what I mean.