From Riches to Rags
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| From Riches to Rags | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | qián zuò guài |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | cin2 zok3 gwaai3 |
company
- 7 October 1980
From Riches to Rags (
In the film, a
Plot
After buying a winning lottery ticket, factory workers Ah Ying and Fatso become millionaires overnight. However, a prediction by a
While on a rooftop, he meets a poor suicidal man, who gives all his money to Ah Ying, under the condition that he hires a hitman to kill him. When Ah Ying realizes he is not going to die after all, he and Fatso tries their best to call off the assassination, and has to tackle not one, but 3 hitmen. The ensuing chase leads all of them to a mental hospital, where they got mixed up with various mental patients in the chaos.
In the end, all the hitmen are killed and the police has arrived to deal with the chaos, but Ah Ying and Fatso have become slightly crazy as a result, with both of them starting to befriend the mental patients in the hospital.
Cast
- Ricky Hui as Ah Ying
- Johnny Koo as Fatso
- JoJo Chan Kei-Kei as JoJo
- Lam Ching-ying as knife killer
References
- ^ "钱作怪 (1980)". MTime (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 December 2016.
External links
- From Riches to Rags at IMDb
- From Riches to Rags at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
