From Riches to Rags (1980)

  • NR
  • 07/10/1980 (HK)
  • Action, Comedy
  • 1h 41m

Overview

Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...

John Woo

Director, Writer

Cast

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying's headshot

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying

Ricky
Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah's headshot

Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah

Fatso
JoJo Chan Kei-Kei's headshot

JoJo Chan Kei-Kei

JoJo
Tong Ching's headshot

Tong Ching

Ling
Yik Ga's headshot

Yik Ga

Julia
Yip Ha-Lei's headshot

Yip Ha-Lei

Doctor Mong
Lam Ching-Ying's headshot

Lam Ching-Ying

Knife killer
Melvin Wong Gam-Sam's headshot

Melvin Wong Gam-Sam

Smoking pool player

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