Code Name: Cougar (1989)
1h 16m
Running Time
November 29, 1989Release Date
Code Name: Cougar (1989)
1h 16m
Running Time
November 29, 1989Release Date
Plot.
A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.
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Cast & Crew.
Ge You
Zheng Xianping
Jia Zhaoji
Actor
Yu Rongguang
Vice-captain
Gong Li
Ah Li
Liu Xiaoning
Liang Zhuang
Wang Xueqi
Huang Jinru
Zhang Yimou
Director
Lan Gu
Qu Xiaozhen
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Codename Cougar (also known as Codename: Cougar, Operation Cougar or The Puma Action) is a 1989 Chinese thriller film. It was co-directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang. Unlike the bulk of Zhang's early works (ranging from 1986's Red Sorghum to 1995's Shanghai Triad), which were all historical pieces, Codename Cougar is a modern thriller involving a skyjacked airliner and political intrigue.
The film was made as a private investment by a friend of Zhang, but parts of their initial ideas were censored by the Chinese authorities. In the end, the film broke even but earned no profits. Zhang called it "a purely commercial gun chase film".