High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Big Trouble in Little China (also known as John Carpenter`s Big Trouble in Little China) is a 1986 American martial arts comedy film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell as truck driver Jack Burton, who helps his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) rescue Wang`s green-eyed fiancee (Suzee Pai) from bandits in San Francisco`s Chinatown. They go into the mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named Lo Pan (James Hong).