Short End of the Stick (TV series)

• Wayne Lai as Lee Suk-gung (李肅恭; homophone to 你叔公, your uncle)

A eunuch who worked in the palace kitchen as a cook and master carver. The leader and most masculine of the three eunuchs. His flattering words gets Kam Heung to admire him, and he becomes her personal advisor. He and Kam Heung are forced into marriage when the entire village thinks they had an indecent affair. He soon becomes spoiled like the rest of the Kam family when he starts living their affluent life.

• Edwin Siu as Chui Jun-sing (崔晉昇; homophone to 催晉升, force promoted) aka Kam Fai (金輝)

As a pretend eunuch, Suk-gung, Siu-fung and Tin meet as civilians outside of the palace. He was living off of his maternal uncle Eunuch Chiu by illegally selling priceless artifacts he has in his possession. He is also a womanizer that has affairs with married women and a penchant for prostitutes. He falls in-love with Wong Lin at first sight. He is also Kam Fai, the illegitimate son of Cheung's and Heung's father. Yin-wai devises a plan to frame him for selling tinted soy sauce because she is worried that he will become the new Kam family head. When someone dies because of Yin-wai's lies he is put on death row, but is saved during his execution due to befriending a crime boss in jail. He comes back to the Kams village as a high ranking warlord general under the name Ko Chiu (高超), to seek revenge against the Kams.

• Raymond Cho as Chan Siu-fung (陳小鳳; nicknamed Sai Gai 細雞, little chicken in Chinese)

A eunuch who was a beautician to the ladies in waiting in the palace. He is a romantic who is always searching for someone to love him. He is also the most feminine, gullible and honest of the three eunuchs. Kam Dai-nam takes a liking to him because he brings her good luck. Uneducated, unskilled, unambitious and weak, Kam Heung refuses to hire him. When all the females in the village over 30 are encouraged to get married he helps them look presentable, especially Dai-nam who he helps dress like a female.

• Power Chan as Dan Tin (丹田; same as pubic region)

A eunuch who worked in the physician quarters in the palace. He is the wisest and most educated of the three eunuchs. He finds ways for the three to possibly better their lives. Lee Suk-gung often plots with him. Suk-gung helps him set up a Chinese physicians practice when Suk-gung is fraudulently engaged to Kam Heung. Dan Tin is not happy being a physician as he is not confident with himself and is afraid someone will die in his care.

• Suet Nei as Kam Suk (金淑; homophone to 金屬, metal)

The matriarch of the Kam family. Kam Heung and Kam Cheong's aunt. Wanting Kam Heung to get married, she makes the entire village believe the Kam family curse to be true.

• Nancy Wu as Kam Heung (金香)

Kam Suk's niece. She manages the family rice business because she is the only surviving offspring of her father's main wife. Wanting to prove the Kam family curse is false, she encourages the single females in the village to get married only to be pushed into marriage herself by the Kam family nemesis Tsui Tai-Fu. She later suffers from a brain tumor which forces her to hand over the family business to Kam Cheong.

• David Chiang as Kam Cheong (金昌)

Kam Heung's older half-brother. Ng Yin-wai's husband. Kam Dai-nam, Dai-tse and Dai-da's father. He has no status in the family since he was born to a concubine and is often belittled by his half-sister-in-law Wan Tai-tse and enemy Tsui Tai-Fu for having no male off-springs. He loses the opportunity to become head of the Kam family when it is found out that he was behind Kam Heung and Suk-gung accidentally consuming a sex drug. He marries a pregnant Wong Lin in order to raise Jun-sing's child as a Kam.

• Rachel Kan as Ng Yin-wai (吳賢慧)

Kam Cheong's second wife and Kam Dai-nam, Dai-tse and Dai-da's step-mother. She treats all of her step-daughters as if they were her own. Tsui Tai-Fu's cousin who is in-love with her. She is often belittled by the first son's wife Wan Tai-tse for not being able to have children after being married to Kam Cheong for so many years. To make sure her husband is secure as the new head of the household she underhandedly schemes with Law Hai, Ng Yin-cho and Dr. But Dou to ruin Jun-sing. She advises her husband to marry Wong Lin in order to repel her sin of framing Jun-sing.

• Rosina Lam as Kam Dai-nam (金帶男)

Kam Cheong's eldest daughter. She dresses and acts like a brutish male because her father is made fun of for not having any sons. Her rash behavior and gambling addiction often causes trouble for her aunt Kam Heung. She takes a liking to Chan Siu-fung because he brings her good luck. She married Chan Siu Fung.

• Toby Chan as Kam Dai-tse (金帶子)

Kam Cheong's second daughter. Fung Chun-sai's wife. She is desperate to become pregnant because she is afraid of being belittled for not being able to have a child. She pretends to have amnesia so her husband Chun-sai can regain his confidence.

• Jack Wu as Fung Chun-sai (方振西)

Kam Dai-tse's husband. He is a highly educated scholar who is also Kam Da-bo's tutor. He is afraid of his wife as she often physically and verbally abuses him. Ashamed of being (mentally) impotent, he lets the entire village think that he died from drowning in the river. He is also a spy for the Qing dynasty.

• Grace Wong as Kam Dai-da (金帶弟)

Kam Cheong's youngest daughter. The first university graduate in the Kam family. She studied abroad and is very westernized, dressing in western clothes and speaking English often. But in reality, she never went abroad to study and was working as a magician at a nightclub in Shanghai. She desperately wants to go to France because her lover Bak Long is there. After Bak Long seduces her, he dumps her, and she later finds out that she is pregnant and aborts the child. She starts to admire and have romantic feelings for Dan Tin when he tends to her while she is recovering from her abortion.

• Yoyo Chen as Wan Tai-tse (雲大芝)

The wife of the Kam family's late oldest son by the main wife. Kam Da-bo's mother. She is arrogant and mean-spirited because of her position as the mother of the current and only Kam family male heir. She takes control of the Kam rice business when Kam Heung marries Lee Suk-gung. However, she abuses her power by spending money carelessly on herself. To continue living lavishly as a Kam, she brought Kam Da-bo from a child abductor and lies that he is her biological son.

• Yiub Cheng as Kam Da-bo (金多寶; a name for a jackpot in the Hong Kong lottery "Mark Six")

Wan Tai-tse's son. He is spoiled because he is the current and only Kam family male heir. When he tells the truth about Suk-gung, Tin and Jun-sing stealing from the Kams, no one believes him because of his reputation as a spoiled brat. He is actually not related to the Kams as Wan Tai-tse bought him from a child abductor to cover for her miscarriage.

• Harriet Yeung as Kam Tai-lik (金大力; homophone to 咁大力, So powerful)

Kam Heung's cousin and Law Hai's wife. She manages the Kam family servants.

• Willie Wai as Law Hai (羅蟹; homophone to 籮蟹, a basket of crabs from a Cantonese slang 倒瀉籮蟹, Epsom a basket of crabs which means too hurry and making things chaos)

Kam Tai-lik's husband. He is the Kam family account. His wife always ends up doing his job because he doesn't know how to do math. Together with Ng Yin-wai and Ng Yin-cho, they frame Chiu Jun-sing for selling tainted soy sauce because the three are jealous of Jun-sing's success.

• Dickson Lee as Ng Yin-cho (吳賢祖; homophone to Daniel Wu's Chinese name 吳彥祖)

Ng Yin-wai's cousin who works for the Kam family. Together with Ng Yin-wai and Law Hai, they frame Chiu Jun-sing for selling tainted soy sauce because the three are jealous of Jun-sing's success.

• Ram Chiang as Yip Ching-yee (葉正義)

A revolutionist who is bent on eradicating anyone associated with the Qing dynasty. He likes to humiliate and belittle eunuchs in public. He is also a distant relative of the Kams. When he arrives to the Kam home village to attend Kam Heung's wedding the eunuchs, fearing that he will recognize them, plans to murder him but end up blinding him instead. But he forgives the eunuchs when his sight recovers after seeing how caring they were to him.

• Natalie Tong as Wong Lin (黃蓮)

A supposed impoverished peasant girl working at the local brothel and hawking matches on the streets that Kam Cheong and Kam Dai-nam take pity on. She is from a family that was originally wealthy, but became poor. To free her from her brothel contract Kam Cheong steals his wife's savings to buy Wong Lin's freedom. She then becomes a Kam servant working under Kam Dai-da. She is actually hired by Tsui Tai-Fu to seduce Kam Cheong in order to break up his marriage. Chiu Jun-sing falls in-love with her at first sight. She is actually a Qing princess who was saved and raised by an eunuch.

• Sin Ho-ying as Mo Fat-tat (毛發達; homophone to never get rich, 冇發達 in Chinese)

The Kam family body guard who is good at martial arts.

• Chan Min-leung as Uncle Nau (牛叔; meaning "Uncle Cow" in Chinese)

A village elder who lives and works at the Kams property. Mrs. Nau's husband and Miss Nau's father.

• Shally Tsang as Mrs. Nau (牛嬸; meaning "Mrs. Cow" in Chinese)

Uncle Nau's wife and Miss Nau's mother. She works at the Kams property.

• Mina Kwok as Miss Nau (牛女; meaning "Cow girl" in Chinese)

Uncle Nau and Mrs. Nau's daughter. She work at the Kams rice field. Chiu Jun-sing and her were in a courting relationship until he met Wong Lin.

• Anthony Ho as Ding (丁)
• Aurora Li as Kam Ho-yan (金可人)
• Kate Tsang as Kam Ho-ngoi (金可愛; homophone to 咁可愛, so cute)
• Leslie Ka Chun as Tim (添)
• Moses Cheng as Fat (發)
• Matthew Chu as Choi (財)
• Bob Cheung as Cheung (祥)
• Ng Kwong-lee as Gwai (貴)
• Jackie Cheung as Hing (興)
• Ꭺlvis Lo as Wong (旺)
• Kitty Lau as Auntie On (安嬸)

The Kam household cook.

• Lydia Law as Yau (柔)

• Li Shing-cheong as Tsui Tai-Fu (徐大富; homophone to take-off big pants, 除大褲 in Chinese)

The Kam family business rival. He often causes trouble for the Kam's by stealing from them and belittling them for not having many male off-springs. Ng Yin-wai's cousin has a soft-spot for her because he is in-love with her. He later becomes poor and loses his fortune.

• Janice Shum as Tsui Tai-Fu's wife (徐大富之妻)
• Fanny Lee as Tsui Tai-Fu's wife (徐大富之妻)
• Fanny Ip as Tsui Tai-Fu's wife (徐大富之妻)
• Oscar Li as Lung (龍)
• Alan Tam Kwan Lun as Fu (虎)
• Raymond Lo as Bao (虎)
• Alex Yung as Yau Tiu-man (尤條文)

Tsui Tai-Fu's nephew who was sent to ruin Kam Heung's husband competition.

*An underground society that wants to restore the Qing dynasty.

• Parkman Wong as Dung Gut (鄧吉)

Leader of the Queue Society.

• Derek Wong as Fu Suet (傅雪)

A spy of the Qing dynasty who is on a secret mission to pass information to Fung Chun-sai.

• Wang Wai Tak as Ma (馬)

A Queue Society member whose cover is selling incense and joss paper.

• Leo Tsang as Physician Tong (堂太醫)

The Imperial Royal Physician Dan Tin study under in the Forbidden City.

• Andy Wong as Nai (乃)
• Keith Mok as Fung (風)
• Dolby Kwan as Faw (火)
• Siu Koi Yan as Hoi (海)
• Deborah Poon as Tin (天)
• Tristan Cheung as Niu (鳥)

• Hugo Wong as Bak Long (白浪)

Kam Dai-da's lover in France. He is a poor poet who already has a wife. He lies to Dai-da that he will divorce his wife for her. After seducing Dai-da he dumps her. When he is divorced with his wife he tries to win Dai-da back but she no longer loves him by then.

• Chan Wing-chun as Eunuch Chui (崔公公)

A former high-ranking eunuch and Chui Jun-sing's uncle who he was living off of because he has many priceless artifacts in his possession. The three eunuchs remember him as kind and always looking out for them in the palace.

• Kayley Chung as Consort Shu (淑妃)

A royal consort that Siu-fung attends to in the Forbidden City.

• Gloria Tang as Mong Liu (夢蕾)

A prostitute who lived in the same dingy neighborhood as the three eunuchs. She tries to trick Siu-fung into selling himself as a slave.

• Man Yeung as Sa Dam (沙膽)

The loan shark and debt collector from the village gambling parlor. He is also a part-time assassin for hire.

• Ngai Wai-man as Physician Wong (黃大夫)

The only Chinese medical physician in the town. He is a fraud who falsely diagnose and wrongly prescribe medicine to his patients. His cover is blown when he lies about his credentials to the eunuchs that he was a royal imperial physician.

• Ricky Chan Chun-wah as Bit Dou (別都)

A western medical doctor of India descent who refuses to treat people unless they have money. He becomes sworn brothers with Suk-gung and Tin when they give him money to save his son. Desperate for money he takes Ng Yin-cho and Law Hai money in order to frame Jun-sing for selling tainted soy sauce.

• Doris Chow as Hung (虹)

A nurse at the western hospital who refuse to treat patients unless they have money.

• Jack Hui as Ko Gwan (高軍)

Chiu Jun-sing's friend hired by Jun-sing to pose as Kam Heung's would be husband. He is actually a wanted criminal.

• Wong Wai-tong as Gold teeth Kui (金牙驅)

A child abductor who traded children on the black market. Wan Tai-tse was one of his customers. The Kams sold him as a slave to the Americas.

• Stephen Ho as Captain Sek (石隊長)

Head of the village police force.

• Glen Lee as Doctor Koo (古醫生)

The new doctor at the western hospital when But Dou skips town after taking Ng Yin-cho and Law Hai money to frame Jun-sing.

• Koo Koon-chung as Seung Sing (常勝)

A death row inmate Jun-sing saves and befriends in prison. He is a bandit gang leader who is saved by his gang during execution.

• Steve Lee as Wu Ma (胡麻)

A warlord that Jun-sing is a subordinate of when he takes on the identity of Ko Chiu.

• Jess Sum as Hau Sin (巧善)

A former Qing palace maid Suk-gung is acquainted with. After leaving the forbidden city, she marries an abusive husband.

• Raymond Tsang as Liu Biu (廖標)

Hau Sin's abusive husband. He and his wife manage and own an awful noodle shop that they rent from the Kams.

• Ivana Wong (王舒銳) as Man Gee (漫　之)

A prostitute that Siu-fung (aka Sai Gai) hires to help him pretend he is a bad person in order to make Kam Dai-nam no longer want to marry him.