From Riches to Rags
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| Traditional Chinese | 錢作怪 | ||||||||||
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| Directed by | John Woo | ||||||||||
| Written by | John Woo | ||||||||||
| Produced by | Raymond Chow | ||||||||||
| Starring | Ricky Hui | ||||||||||
| Music by | Sam Hui | ||||||||||
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Running time | 101 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Language | Cantonese | ||||||||||
From Riches to Rags (Chinese: 錢作怪) is a 1980 Hong Kong action comedy film. It was written and directed by John Woo, starring Ricky Hui and Johnny Koo.[1]
In the film, a nouveau riche millionaire is convinced that he is dying from cancer. Getting suicidal, he hires contract killers to kill him. He soon realizes that he is healthy, but he is unable to call off his own assassination. He survives the assassination attempts, but becomes unhinged during his stay in a mental hospital.
Plot
After buying a winning lottery ticket, factory workers Ah Ying and Fatso become millionaires overnight. However, a prediction by a fortune teller and a mix-up with a doctor leads Ah Ying to believe he is going to die from cancer. Not wanting to suffer, Ah Ying decides to commit suicide, but is afraid of it being painful.
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.