When you next watch a Jackie Chan film, just remember that his parents – Charles and Lee-Lee Chan – went through hell so the groundbreaking movie star could exist in the first place. A Tale of Three Cities, directed by Mabel Cheung, is a romantic epic set in China’s not-too-distant past; a turbulent time beset by war, espionage, and racial conflict. So when Chan approached Cheung and writer Alex Law to dramatise the story of his mother and father, he was probably expecting an emotionally…
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