Chung wah do hap (2000)

Jersy is the self proclaimed King of Gamblers in Hong Kong. When he hears the story about his idol, Cool, disappearing for 3 years, he hopes to one day find him. His girlfriend, Banana, ... See full summary »

Director:

Siu-Tung Ching

Writer:

Yiu Fai Lo (screenplay)

Stars:

Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Athena Chu

Cast

Credited cast:
Louis Koo	...	Cool
Nick Cheung	...	Jersy
Athena Chu	...	Nancy
Christy Chung	...	Banana
Ben Lam	...	Yeung Kwong
Yasuaki Kurata	...	Tetsuo
Ka-Yan Leung	...	Turkey
Joe Cheng	...	Joe
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Do-Yu Lee
Siu-Ming Lui
William Tuen

Storyline

Jersy is the self proclaimed King of Gamblers in Hong Kong. When he hears the story about his idol, Cool, disappearing for 3 years, he hopes to one day find him. His girlfriend, Banana, decides that they should go to Tokyo. The couple go and one night, go to a Chinese restaurant, where the owner turns out to be Cool. Cool was betrayed by old friend Yeung Kwong, who married Cool's girlfriend Nancy. Cool wants revenge but first, he must deal with the #1 Asian Gambler, Tetsuo.

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

31 August 2000 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Conman in Tokyo

Company Credits

Production Co:

B.O.B. and Partners, Star East

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Gotta Love the Flying Cards!!

This wasn't a great movie, and maybe not even quite good. But yet, I was highly entertained throughout. For me, I'm figuring out that quite often, it's not the plot that makes an entertaining Hong Kong movie, but the interesting characters and their interactions getting to the plot that keep me entertained. I'm not knocking Hong Kong movies, as there are plenty of high quality ones with good plots...like The Killer or Beijing Bicycle that I think are excellent movies. But the Hong Kong movie movie industry seems to be able to crank out lots of lesser movies, that are just good fun to sit around with your friends and watch. This movie had some good elements. I'm a big fan of cards, poker, gambling...so the card playing scenes, as well as the dice scene, were my favorites. I'm going to have to practice up my "Flying Cards" before my next game with my poker buddies. It also had a few good kung fu scenes, where one of the characters exclaim that "Jackie Chan isn't the only one in Hong Kong that knows Kung Fu". Also, the subtitles weren't the best which also provided for some unintentional humor. Just simple fun. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that it had some serious scenes as well, but for me, they were just pauses between the action in this movie.

**1/2 (Out of 4)