Jiu pin zhi ma guan: Bai mian Bao Qing Tian (1994)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Jing Wong

Writer:

Jing Wong (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Pao Lung-Sing (Stephen Chow), a decendant of the famous Judge Pao Ching Tient, is a 9th degree corrupt...

Cast

Stephen Chow	...	Pao Lung-Sing (as Sing-chi Chow)
Sharla Cheung	...	Chi Siu-Lin (as Man Cheung)
Man Tat Ng	...	Yau Wai (as Mang-tat Ng)
Christy Chung	...	Stone Mansion (as Lai-tai Chung)
Elvis Tsui	...	Panther (as Kam-kong Tsui)
Ada Choi	...	Yu Yin (as Siu-fan Choi)
Collin Chou	...	Shang Wai (as Sing Ngai)
King-Tan Yuen	...	Madam
Lawrence Ng	...	'Mirror' Fong Tong-Kan (as Kai-wah Ng)
John Ching	...	Lui Fook (as Tung Ching)
Wing-Chung Leung	...	Stone Talk
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ping Ha	...	Lung-Sing's mum
Feng Ku	...	Navy Commander Shang Kwan
Shun Lau	...	Eunuch Li Lin-Ying
Wui Ng	...	Lung-Sing's dad
Gabriel Wong	...	Majesty
Yut Fei Wong	...	Magistrate Chan Pak-Cheung

Also Known As:

Gau ban chi lut goon - Baak min Pau Ching Tin (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Hail the Judge (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Hong Kong:IIB

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

totally absolutely ultimately 1000 times more ridiculous than any film that u can imagine!!!

I felt sorry enough that this film is not popular at all even in Hong Kong. However, for all die hard Chow's fan, this will be a masterpiece that shud not b left out. This is "Mo Lei Tou" (a comedy style that based on unrealistic and ridiculous plot pioneered by Chow) at its peak. The plot is totally absolutely ultimately 1000 times more ridiculous than any film that u can imagine. The dialog is awesome. No single part of the film cool down for u to stop laughing.

The plot look simple but crazy enuf for u to start laughing. It begin with Chow starring a junior magistrate (a corrupted one of course)caught into jail when helping an innocent married woman he love at first sight to clear her from a murder charge that plot by evil minister whose son was actually the real convict. Chow escape from jail and run away as a refugee. He intend to go to the capital to see the Emperor and report the conviction. On his way, he manage to pick up 2 lovely women, one from circus, another one a prostitute while in the mean time mastering supreme skill to quarrel and bad mouth from the thin Mama-san (who happen to be his future in law). Finally, he able to force the Emperor to re-open the case by black mail the Emperor whom he meet him in the brothel. The Emperor made him a highest level judge to judge the case tgt with the evil minister. He manage to setup some brilliant but hilarious plots to force the convict to commit the crime, execute him while thrown the evil minister to jail.

The plots are really hilarious and ridiculously brilliant. Also not to forget the tremendous dialog that include some brilliant bad mouth quarrel between Chow and the Mama-san, quarrel between the fat Mama-san and thin Mama-san to inspire Chow to learn the quarrel skill later and also quarrel between Chow and the evil eunuch Lee near the ending. Beside that, some of the scenes are brilliant too.

One thing that need to mention is that to really understand the film and catch up 100 % of all the elements correctly, this will be a must to master Cantonese really well. Which may be the reason why early age Chow movie receive moderate response only from Asian world. However, when Chow film began to spread his influence around the globe, hardcore fans like me found that his film is no more that funny like the old time.