The Luckiest Man

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The Luckiest Man/(Везунчик)
(Da Si Xi)
Daai Sei Hei (大四喜)
Directed by Chi Chung Lam, Feili Ling, Stephen Chow
Written by Chi Chung Lam
Screenplay byLam Tze-Chung
Produced by Panpan Yeung, Sharon Yeung Pan-Pan (executive producer)
Starring
Cinematography Kwan Chi-Kan
Edited byTang Man-To
Music by Brother Hung
Production
companies
Release dates
  • 29 May 2008 (2008-05-29)(Hong Kong)
  • 4 September 2008 (2008-09-04)
Running time
1h 29m
CountriesHong Kong, China
LanguagesChinese, Cantonese
Budget$18 694 [1]
Box office$280,187 [2]

The Luckiest Man is a Hong Kong anarchic comedy drama produced in 2008 and directed by Lam Tze-chung. [3] [4]

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Plot and summary

The king of gambling 'Mr. Ho' got rich through and became the of the Hong Kong Mahjong industry during the 50s. Mr. Ho has three wives and three children's, his wives appeared to be competing against each other due to the family's wealth as they live in harmony, but at all cost, the three wives have experience in martial arts (Kung Fu), during the dinner they sometimes have a martial arts showdown. The cause of their quarrel was when Mr. Ho brings (Ah Fai) his loved child back home, his wives and the other children want 'Ah Fai' dead. After realizing that he is getting old, he challenges each of his sons to manage a Mahjong parlor which was done for some period of time.

Aside from talking behind his back which his three wives always do, they also poison his food leading to a little scatological humor and the awful mental image of 'Mr Ho' seen spending six hours in the toilet. [5]

He later escapes his crappy life by running around searching for his first love, instead of seeing another freeloader; his long lost grandchild 'Fai' (Bosco Wong) which will be seen as potentially less inheritance money to his order families. [6]

A huge amount was paid just to get cheating masters with more experience to take 'Ah Fai' down in the 'Mahjong' but 'Mr. Ho' notice the setup and decided to hire three good masters in 'Mah Jong' of the 50s who are retired for long, to help 'Ah Fai' and his natural talent makes him masters the techniques of MahJong and that how the challenge begins. [7]

All these was done because he Mr Ho needs to see if one can get the best rest and to be the next (heir) his successor for the Mahjong parlour. [8] [9]

For the family to get rid of 'Ah Fai', the long lost grandchild; they try to pay him off and attempt to drive him from the house using some tricks, like epoxy, aphrodisiac, and itching powder but in the end, it became silly at objectives. [10]

Cast crew

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References

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  2. ↑ Dai sei hei (2008) - IMDb , retrieved 20 October 2020
  3. ↑ The Luckiest Man , retrieved 20 October 2020
  4. ↑ "FilmTray". filmtray.com. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  5. ↑ The Luckiest Man (2008) , retrieved 20 October 2020
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  7. ↑ "Hong Kong Cinemagic - The Luckiest Man". www.hkcinemagic.com. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "The Luckiest Man 大四喜". ram-ent.com. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  9. ↑ 大四喜 - Enjoy Movie (in Chinese), retrieved 20 October 2020
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