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

From Riches to Rags (Chinese: 錢作怪) is a 1980 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by John Woo starring Ricky Hui and Johnny Koo.[1]

Plot

After buying a winning lottery ticket, factory workers Ah Ying and Fatso 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, who gives all his money to Ah Ying, 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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