CJ7

I'd watched CJ7 recently when I went to Pastor Rudy's house to wait the time for student's house visitation (Nikky). The movie although quite boring but it's fun.

CJ7 (traditional Chinese: 長江七號; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng qī hào) is a 2008 Hong Kong science fiction/comedy film written, produced and directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the film. It was released on January 31, 2008 in Hong Kong.

In August 2007 the film was given the title CJ7,[1] a play on China's successful Shenzhou manned space missions - Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. It was previously been known by a series of working titles - Alien, Yangtze River VII, Long River 7 and most notably, A Hope.

It was filmed in Ningbo, in the Zhejiang province.

As with the title CJ7, the earlier working titles, Yangtze River VII and Long River 7, referred to the Chinese manned space program. The mission of Shenzhou 6 was completed in 2006 and the real Shenzhou 7 is set to launch in September 2008. [2]

The film will have a budget of $20 million US, and will be heavy on CG effects.[3]

Chow plays a widower who lives in a partly demolished house with his son (who is actually played by a girl, Xu Jiao). As Chow's character can't afford to buy a toy for the child, he finds a makeshift toy in the garbage and brings it back to his son. The toy is actually an alien and the aliens are desperate to get it back.[4] Some rumours state that it is a "pet" rather than a "toy".[5]

The reason Chow's character can't afford to buy the child a toy is because he spends all this income on sending his son to a private school. Furthermore, he owes his boss (a contractor played by Lam Chi Chung) for money loaned to him after the death of his wife.