Zhui nan zi (1993)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Jing Wong

Writer:

Jing Wong (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A man wants to see his three daughters get married. The eldest is a hard-nosed cop who needs a hard-nosed lover...

Cast

Tony Leung Ka Fai	...	Simon Tse Sai
Brigitte Lin	...	Ching Siu Tung / Yuk Hing
Maggie Cheung	...	Ching Siu Nam / Viet-Nam Rose
Jacky Cheung	...	Wu Ying
Jimmy Lin	...	Ching Siu Pei
Richard Ng	...	Ching Sing
Ly-Gin Chang	...	Uncle Zai
Sandra Ng Kwan Yue	...	Chi Sum Chan
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ekin Cheng	...	Lee Chi Ko (as Dior Cheng)
Ping Ha	...	Mrs. Wu
Lan Law	...	Wu Ying's Mother
Ken Lo	...	Wild Dog
Fui-On Shing	...	Jerk
Ronald Wong	...	Chicken
Yut Fei Wong	...	Hypnotist
Fung Woo	...	Uncle Zai
Chingmy Yau	...	Ching Siu Sze
King-Tan Yuen

Also Known As:

Boys Are Easy (Hong Kong: English title)
Chasing Boys (Hong Kong: English title) (informal literal title)
Jui nam zai (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIA

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Chang-Wong Channel Film & Video Company

Quotes:

Ching Sing: Have you seen my gold watch and money?
Chi Sum: You mean the $8,751.25 and your Rolex gold watch?
Ching Sing: Yeah.
Chi Sum: No!

Three top billing HK actresses together with Wong Jing directing-fabulous!

This is a great action comedy with that wonderful rare combination of film categories Hong Kong films were so famous for during the early 1990s. Spectacular action combines with outrageous comedy and romance in this spoof of almost everything. This makes similar US romantic situation comedy films look very slow and boring by comparison. Maggie Cheung, Chingmy Yau, and Brigitte Lin are all fabulous, as is Ekin Cheng, Tony Leung Kar Fai and Jackie Cheung. Three sisters decide to get some temporary boyfriends when they think they have discovered their widower dad has terminal cancer with only a month to live. Brigitte Lin is a masculine, abusive, violent cop, who picks a high paid gigolo because she can control, beat, and threaten him to behave. Maggie Cheung is a naive, sweet optimist who accidentally picks a real lowlife very crude low-level sociopath gangster. She thinks he is great, and overlooks all his defects. Chingmy is the younger sexy sister who thinks she is picking a virgin. All three situations are insanely funny and combine for even more insanity when they all get together in the house to meet their dad. The Triad Olympics scene is especially funny- possibly a spoof of special Olympics. Throw your taste out the window, and prepare to witness things you have never seen before when watching this truly outrageous action-comedy directed by Wong Jing. Look for the uncut version on laserdisc if you can- for even more outrageousness.