A dead man's cassette tape, a mistaken identity, and Eric Tsang in chaos mode.
Billionaire Law and his accomplices are conspiring the murder of a judge. The conspiracy is overheard by a inspector from ICAC who records the meeting on a cassette tape. Billionaire Law is determined to pin him down. Before he dies, he hides the tape in a reporter Mel's car. A young man, Law Kim Long, smuggles into Hong Kong to look for his father. The Snake-head is mistaken him to be Billionaire Law's son, so he makes him groomed.
Stunts
Lau Kar-Wing's fight coordination before he went full comedy
Acting
Eric Tsang somehow stealing every scene he's barely in
Production
Peak 1983 Hong Kong grime and neon aesthetic
Director
Lau Kar-Wing
Alan Tam
Elflynn Lo
Olivia Cheng Man-Nga
Mildred
Eric Tsang Chi-Wai
Yu Ming
David Chiang Da-Wei
Detective
Wong Ching
Billion Lo
Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Billion's killer
Lee Hoi-Sang
Billion's thug
Hon Kwok-Choi
Billion's thug
Raymond Wong Pak-Ming
Mildred's chief editor
Bolo Yeung
Billion's killer
Lau Kar-Wing
ICAC officer
Walter Tso Tat-Wah
Judge Pao
Fung Ging-Man
Pimp
Tai San
Shing Fui-On
Angry man looking for chief editor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lau Kar-Wing directed this between choreographing fights for Sammo Hung's films, and you can feel the action pedigree struggling against the comedy mandate.
The ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) was still relatively new in 1983 Hong Kong, making this a surprisingly topical corruption satire wrapped in slapstick.
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