CJ7

CJ7
Official poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese长江七号
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyincheng jiang qi hao
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingcoeng4 gong1 cat1 hou4
Directed byStephen Chow
Written byStephen Chow
Vincent Kok
Tsang Kan-Cheong
Sandy Shaw Lai-King
Fung Chi-Keung
Lam Fung
Produced byStephen Chow
Han Sanping
Po-Chu Chui
StarringStephen Chow
Xu Jiao
Zhang Yuqi
CinematographyPoon Hang-Sang
Edited byAngie Lam, Kendall Murillo Montoya
Music byRaymond Wong Ying-Wah
Production
companies
Distributed byChina Film Group Corporation (China)
Sony Pictures Releasing (International)
Release dates
  • 30 January 2008 (2008-01-30) (China)
  • 31 January 2008 (2008-01-31) (Hong Kong)
Running time
88 minutes
CountriesChina
Hong Kong
LanguagesMandarin
Cantonese
BudgetUS$20 million
Box officeUS$47.3 million

CJ7 (Chinese: 长江七号; Cantonese Yale: Cheung gong chat hou; lit. 'Yangtze 7') is a 2008 Chinese-Hong Kong science fiction comedy film co-written, co-produced, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow in his final film acting performance, before he became a fulltime filmmaker. The film was released theatrically in China on 30 January 2008 and in Hong Kong on 31 January 2008.

In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou crewed space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. It was previously known by a series of working titles including Alien and most notably A Hope. The film was filmed in Ningbo, in the Zhejiang province of China.