Big Trouble in Little China (also in known as John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American fantasy martial arts action-comedy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong.
The film tells the story of truck driver Jack Burton (Russell), who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dun) rescue Wang’s green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
It is so awesome Carpenter thought about making a movie whose protagonist is the sidekick. It’s an absolutely obvious role reversal and yet (as far as I know, and I admit I know little) it hadn’t been done before and hasn’t been done again (please correct me if I’m wrong)