The game, National Search for Jaycee, went viral after Chan was arrested on drugs charges. Source: Supplied
HIS father is Hollywood's favourite martial arts action hero.
Now Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie, is a star too — for rather less edifying reasons.
The 31-year-old actor, arrested a fortnight ago on drugs charges, has stepped out of the shadow of his famous dad: as the protagonist in a viral Where's Wally?-style computer game.
Jaycee was arrested along with 23-year-old Taiwanese movie star Kai Ko in one of China's biggest anti-drug crackdowns in two decades.
Can you spot Jaycee in a sea of images of his fellow detainee, Kai Ko? Source: Supplied
Both tested positive for marijuana and admitted using the drug, with 100g confiscated from Jaycee's home.
Ko is Jaycee's co-star in the viral internet game too, with users required to seek out and click on Jaycee's face in a grid of pictures of Ko.
The game, called The National Search for Jaycee, has been viewed more than 60 million times on popular Chinese messaging app WeChat, the BBC reported.
Users said they found the game "pointless but addictive", with others saying, "It's harder than finding Wally".
Jaycee's father Jackie, the Hong Kong star of blockbusters including Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, released a statement expressing his shock and disappointment.
More than 60 million users have played the game after it was posted on messaging app WeChat. Source: Supplied
"When I first heard the news, I was absolutely enraged," he said. "As a public figure, I feel very ashamed; as his dad, I'm very sad and disappointed. But the person who feels heartbroken the most is his mum.
"I would like to take this opportunity and say to Jaycee: 'you've done something wrong and you have to be responsible for the consequences.'
"I'm your dad and I'll always be with you. We will face the road ahead of us together."
The episode is particularly embarrassing after China named the elder Chan an anti-drugs ambassador in 2009, while Ko was part of an anti-drug campaign two years ago.
Chinese TV station CCTV broadcast footage from the campaign in which Ko and other celebrities chorused: "I don't use drugs."
Action star Jackie Chan, an anti-drugs ambassador, expressed disappointment over his son's actions. Source: AFP
Chan and Ko's detentions follow a declaration in June by President Xi Jinping that illegal drugs should be wiped out and that offenders would be severely punished.
In Beijing alone, more than 7800 people have been caught in the crackdown, according to police, including a slew of local celebrities.
Critics say China is targeting showbusiness stars to reassert its authority.
Last week, 42 Beijing performing arts associations and theatre companies signed a pledge to not hire any actors connected with drugs in an event organised by the capital's Narcotics Control Office and the Beijing Cultural Bureau.
Illegal drug use has ballooned in China in recent decades, after being virtually eradicated following the 1949 communist revolution. Narcotics began to reappear with the loosening of social controls in the late 1980s.
Cannabis was confiscated from his home. Source: AP
Jaycee, 31, is an actor like his father. Source: Getty Images
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