From Riches to Rags

From Riches to Rags is a 1980 Hong Kong film written and directed by John Woo starring Ricky Hui and Johnny Koo.[1]

From Riches to Rags
Traditional錢作怪
Mandarinqián zuò guài
Cantonesecin2 zok3 gwaai3
Directed byJohn Woo
Produced byRaymond Chow
Written byJohn Woo
StarringRicky Hui
Production
company
Release date
  • 7 October 1980 (1980-10-07)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Plot

After buying a winning lottery ticket factory workers Ah Ying (Ricky Hui) and Fatso (Johnny Koo) become millionaires overnight however a prediction by a fortune teller and a mix-up with a doctor leads Ah Ying to believe he is going to die from cancer. Not wanting to suffer Ah Ying decides to commit suicide but is afraid of it being painful. While on a rooftop he meets a poor suicidal man whom he gives all his money to under the condition that he hires a hitman to kill him. When Ah Ying realizes he is not going to die after all, he and Fatso tries their best to call off the assassination, and has to tackle not one, but 3 hitmen. The ensuing chase leads all of them to a mental hospital, where they got mixed up with various mental patients in the chaos. In the end, all the hitmen are killed and the police has arrived to deal with the chaos, but Ah Ying and Fatso have become slightly crazy as a result, with both of them starting to befriend the mental patients in the hospital.

Cast

References
  1. "钱作怪 (1980)". MTime (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 December 2016.
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