Curry and Pepper

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Curry and Pepper
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Traditional Chinese 咖喱辣椒
Simplified Chinese 咖喱辣椒
Hanyu Pinyin Gālí Làjiāo
Jyutping Gaa3 Lei1 Laat6 Ziu1
Directed by Blackie Ko
Written byJames Yuen
Produced by Peter Chan
Starring Jacky Cheung
Stephen Chow
Ann Bridgewater
Eric Tsang
Cinematography Andrew Lau
Edited byChan Kei-hop
Music byRichard Lo
Production
company
Movie Impact
Distributed byNewport Entertainment
Release date
  • 24 May 1990 (1990-05-24)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$15,777,856

Curry and Pepper is a 1990 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Blackie Ko and starring Jacky Cheung and Stephen Chow. This film is Cheung and Chow's second film collaboration after the 1988 film, Faithfully Yours .

Contents

Plot

Curry and Pepper are two CID detectives that do not take their jobs seriously. When newspaper reporter Joey Law decides to film a documentary about daily police life, she chooses to film Curry and Pepper. As Curry and Pepper fight for Joey's affection, their friendship is seriously jeopardised. Eventually, the two reconcile and work together to take down a vicious hit man named Abalone. Later, they are dealing against North Korea Communists and kill them all for entering Hong Kong for with no permission.

Cast

NameRole
Jacky Cheung as Curry (Wong Ka-lei)
Stephen Chow as Pepper (Chiu Man-keung)
Blackie Ko as Abalone
John Shum as Chin Wontons
Barry Wong as Chief Inspector Chow
Fruit Chan as Kuo
Eric Tsang as Ten
Ann Bridgewater  [ sv ]as Joey Law
Chow Mei-yan as Anna
Michael Dinga as Chief Inspector Ma
Billy Ching as Dog
Fung Yuen-chi as General
Lau Yuk-kei as General's killer
Szeto Chi-keung as General's killer
Garry Chan as Druggy Ma Chen
Cheung Ying-wah as Drug Addict Chuen
Yeung Wan-king as Bearded burglar

Box office

This film grossed HK$15,777,856 in its theatrical run in Hong Kong from 24 May to 29 June 1990.


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