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The Gambling Ghost (1991) (DVD) (Remastered Edition) (Hong Kong Version)

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Mix God of Gamblers with a dash of A Chinese Ghost Story , bake until the comedy is well done, and serve as The Gambling Ghost , a Sammo Hung crowd-pleaser from 1991. Capitalizing on two of the most popular genre trends from the late 1980s - card-shark comedies and supernatural fantasies - The Gambling Ghost also gets a boost from the incomparable fight choreography of its main star. Sammo does triple duty, playing the layabout lead, his disapproving father, and his deceased grandfather. Sharing the spotlight with Hung, Hung, and Hung is perennial funnyman and frequent Sammo collaborator Richard Ng ( Winners and Sinners , Millionaire's Express ) and Wu Ma, spoofing his famous appearance as a mystical swordsman in A Chinese Ghost Story . Gambling is in Fatty Hung's blood. Although his card-shark grandfather met his end at the point of a gun barrel in a mafia-run casino, Fatty is nonetheless determined to strike it rich at cards. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have inherited his ancestor's talent for the game. Instead, Fatty and his friend Hoi resort to scamming the local gangsters out of their cash. But when their scheming inevitably backfires, Fatty is given twenty-four hours to pay the triads one million dollars, or else Hoi pays the ultimate penalty. Fortunately for Fatty, his grandfather's ghost is eager is get back at the mobsters who did him in, and agrees to help his descendent clean out the gambling dens. With a little underhanded help from the otherworld, Fatty may finally become the unbeatable poker wizard he's always wanted to be.

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