CJ7

Directed byStephen ChowWritten byStephen Chow
Vincent Kok
Tsang Kan-Cheong
Sandy Shaw Lai-King
Fung Chi-Keung
Lam FungProduced byStephen Chow
Han Sanping
Po-Chu ChuiStarringStephen Chow
Xu Jiao
Zhang YuqiCinematographyPoon Hang-SangEdited byAngie Lam
Kendall Murillo MontoyaMusic byRaymond Wong Ying-WahDistributed byChina Film Group Corporation (China)
Sony Pictures Releasing (International)88 minutesCountriesChina
Hong KongLanguagesMandarin
CantoneseBudgetUS$20 millionBox officeUS$47.3 million

CJ7 (Chinese: 长江七号; Cantonese Yale: Cheung gong chat hou; lit. 'Yangtze 7') is a 2008Chinese-Hong Kongscience fictioncomedy film co-written, co-produced, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow in his final film acting performance, before he became a fulltime filmmaker. The film was released theatrically in China on 30 January 2008 and in Hong Kong on 31 January 2008.

In August 2007, the film was given the title CJ7, a play on China's successful Shenzhou crewed space missions—Shenzhou 5 and Shenzhou 6. It was previously known by a series of working titles including Alien and most notably A Hope. The film was filmed in Ningbo, in the Zhejiang province of China.