The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
Gat seng gung ziu
Hong Kong
1990
86 Min
Color
English, Cantonese
Synopsis
Chow Yun Fat takes the role of a wealthy socialite who becomes increasingly bored of the life he leads. Surrounded by sycophantic associates and with every decision in his life already made for him, he decides to go out into the working world and lead a more normal life. Soon after leaving his cloistered world he manages to find work at a local restaurant and happily takes on the most mundane tasks. Happy with his relatively stress free environment, Chow meets and slowly falls in love with the daughter of the restaurant owner and manages to use his subtle charms on her. Her father, however, has other ideas and continues to try to marry her off to a rich suitor, even though she is firmly against the idea. Chow also faces the prospect of marriage to a far from ideal partner and realises his former world is beginning to close in on his new environment. The time thus comes to reveal his true identity to his new workmates and try to win the heart of the the woman he loves. —fareastfilms.com
Director
Johnnie To
Following his directorial debut with the 1980 period martial arts fantasy The Enigmatic Case, To’s career came to something of an apex in the late 1980s thanks to such memorable action films as The Big Heat and tender, personal dramas like All About Ah-Long (the latter of which landed star Chow Yun-Fat a Best Actor award at the 1990 Hong Kong Film Awards). After taking the helm for such memorable action films as The Heroic Trio and directing Stephen Chow in such films as Justice, My Foot and Mad Monk in the early ‘90s, To moved into producing with the creation of independent film company Milky Way Films, a company which yielded such popular Hong Kong action efforts as Nai-hoi Yau’s The Longest Nite and Expect the Unexpected. Though To’s production company was indeed a success, his career behind the camera was in need of some rejuvenation, an issue which he readily addressed with the release of his highly praised 1999 crime drama The Mission.
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