Nurse Liang Shanbo and Actress Zhu Yingtai are mismatched cousins who just inherited a rental home from their late relative. When they moved in, they discover that a room has been rented out to a man named Ben, who turns out to be a criminal gangster. One night, when Ben returns home, bloodied and injured, he collapses into Yingtai's arms and whispers a code in her ear before he dies. Not knowing what the code leads to, Yingtai and Shanbo are later visited by a man claiming to be Ben's brother who wants to solve the case. In the meantime, gangsters believed to be involved with Ben's murder want to retrieve the code from the girls, whom they think were told by Ben what it actually unlocks.
Acting
Maggie Cheung and Carol Cheng's electric comedic chemistry carries every scene.
Direction
Wong Jing's signature anything-goes pacing never lets you breathe.
Director
Wong Jing
Carol Cheng
Liang Shan Bo
Maggie Cheung
Zhu Ying Tai
Natalis Chan Pak-Cheung
Handsome
Charlie Cho Cha-Lee
Canying / Fly
Wilson Lam Chun-Yin
Sam
Tom Poon
Ben Liang
Hon Yee-Sang
Viper
Sherman Wong
Liang (Mainland gangster)
Lo Fan
Shantung woman (Mainland gangster)
Yu Miu-Lin
Nurse Zhu Huo Ji
Wong Jing
Councillor Wang Heng Xin
Dennis Chan Kwok-San
Lawyer Liu Zhi Pang
Chan Fai-Hung
Stage Director
Michelle Sima
Stage Actress
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The leads' names Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai reference the classic Chinese Butterfly Lovers legend — Wong Jing loves dropping literary Easter eggs into his lowest-brow comedies.
This represents peak 'girls with guns' era Hong Kong cinema, where female-led action-comedies dominated before the 1997 handover shifted industry priorities. Maggie Cheung was already a star but hadn't yet hit her arthouse phase with Wong Kar-wai.
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