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#11,717 All-time worldwide
#174 1989 releases

Movie profile

Burning Ambition

1989 · 104 min · Lusty Electric Industries

Action Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $425,977
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$170,391

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$255,586

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$47,709

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Burning Ambition ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,717 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #174 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Primary genre #2,822 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,714 Body Snatchers 1993 · $428,868 #11,715 Luminarias 2000 · $428,535 #11,716 Last Rites 1988 · $426,965 #11,718 Wild Man Blues 1997 · $425,788 #11,719 Handsome Poor Bilo 1979 · $425,000 #11,720 The Roar of the Vietnamese 1991 · $424,910

Quick answer

How did Burning Ambition (1989) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Burning Ambition (1989) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $426.0K. In this database it currently ranks #11,717 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #174 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$425,977
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 13, 1989
Production
Lusty Electric Industries, Long Shong Pictures, Universal Laboratory Limited
Countries
HK, TW

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyLusty Electric Industries Release year chart1989 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, Burning Ambition is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Crime, Thriller title from Lusty Electric Industries. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $425,977. For comparison, it currently sits #11,717 all-time in the current chart set and #174 among 1989 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.