He soon gets involved with Roy, an outlaw, and after a series of coincidences and shenanigans (you know, the usual comedy fare), they become friends and work together to save Pei-Pei.
When the Chinese princess Pei-Pei is kidnapped in 1881, Wang comes to the United States with three Imperial guards to track her down.
Taking the beloved buddy cop movie genre into the American West and mixing in kung fu action, Shanghai Noon followed the unexpected partnership of Jackie Chan’s Chon Wang and Owen Wilson’s Roy O’Bannon.
Shanghai Knights brought this unlikely duo back together for an adventure in London, England, where they assisted Wang’s sister in tracking down the man who killed her and Wang’s father.