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Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Light as air, brilliantly funny, exciting satire-cum-action fantasy. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | ... | Wah Li |
 | Ma Wu | ... | Ma Lun Chio |
| Ching-Ying Lam | ... | Uncle Yee |
| Cherie Chung | ... | Miss Yuen |
| Fat Chung | ... | Priest |
| Ching Po Chang | ... | Village Head |
| Lung Chan | ... | Buckteeh Assistant |
| Chau Sang Lau | ... | Assistant |
| Wellson Chin | ... | Adulterer |
| Suet-Moi Leung | ... | Adultress |
| Yuet Sang Chin | ... | Thief |
| Siu-Ming To | ... | Drunk |
| Ying-Ying Hui | ... | Madame |
| Kam Kong Chow | ... | Assistant |
| Chi Kit Lee | ... | Assistant |
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The Dead and the Deadly (Hong Kong: English title)Yan haak yan (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
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Bonkers chop-socky that is part satire of ludicrous Hong Kong supernatural martial arts films, and part brilliant example of how it should be done. A rare wheeze that actually does have something for everyone:
Excellent slapstick comedy - the hero is pompous and fat, not lithe and Jackie Chan-like; getting into daft, self-generated scrapes, he is kicked about by every one, and guards a dead friend who isn't really dead in an hilarious scene that has him fending off curious gold thieves. He is repeatedly buffeted by otherworldly menaces, first his mischievous friend, then Satan's minions, who turn him into a lime-covered bug.
Action - Choreographed with great skill, played mostly for laughs, but there is one sequence - the friend's murder - that is filmed with rare beauty.
Horror - Again, mostly comic, with a remarkable use of somewhat cheap special effects.
Historical costume drama - not very precise, but the costumes and set-design are an immense, guilty, Orientalist pleasure.
Satire - under all the laughs is a serious study of repressive social and gender codes, and the last scene is spectacularly subversive in its implications.