God of Gamblers
Dir/Scr: Wong Jing
Prod Co: Win's
Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Charles Heung, Joey Wong, Sharla Cheung
1989 / Colour / DCP / Cantonese / Chi & Eng Subtitles / 125min
Prod Co: Win's
Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Charles Heung, Joey Wong, Sharla Cheung
1989 / Colour / DCP / Cantonese / Chi & Eng Subtitles / 125min
Hong Kong gambling films are, like Hollywood gangster movies, metaphors for capitalism. The genre reached its apex of popularity in the later part of the go-go 1980s, when Hong Kong was merrily engrossed in an unapologetic embrace of free-market economics and get-rich-quick was on the minds of many.
God of Gamblers
was among the most popular in the genre. It's the story of a legendary gambler who suffers a partial loss of memory that reduces him to the mental stage of a child after a freak accident on the eve of a much-hyped confrontation at the card table. Only with the help of an enterprising young hustler, and after an eventful series of over-the-top adventures, is he back at the table again…