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- Old Hui, the stingy owner of a traditional BBQ duck restaurant, has to fight to retain customers defecting to a new fast-food fried chicken joint just across the street.
- Chou Sai-Cheong. a bitter supervisor of a Hong Kong private security company, teaches unusual guard tactics to new recruits such as electric mats, parachuting off burning buildings and counter-attacking gunfire. He was secretly observed by his new boss (Stanley Fung) and, unimpressed by his work, the new boss demotes Chou and promotes Chou's assistant Sam (Sam Hui). Under the leadership of Sam, Chou and new recruit Bruce Tang (Ricky Hui) encounter a slew of misadventures, including pursuing stowaways on a party boat. Bruce ultimately falls in love with one of the stowaways. Finally, they all get entangled in a plot to steal one of China's most prized treasures on display in Hong Kong, and in a plot involving some missing government money that the security officers were guarding.
- Mr. Coconut, who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. Mr. Coconut has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and everything.
- A gang of opium smugglers, disguised as Taoist Priests transporting hopping corpses, are hired to transport a real dead body to it's final resting place.
- Hui (Michael Hui), an owner of a Hong Kong tabloid magazine company, hires martial artist Bill Lee (Sam Hui) to help him get a good headliner for a magazine story to, hopefully, save his failing business. In the process, Bill meets San-San (Catherine Hung Yan), the fiancée of a wealthy jewelry business owner, and pursues her in order to get the scoop about her life. After thinking that San-San would make a great headliner, Bill feels sorry for her because of her troubled life: her mother has cancer, her brother is mentally disabled and her fiancé puts work before her. Thus, Bill is reluctant to publish San-San's story, putting the tabloid company's fate in his hands.
- A con man and a small time gambler team up to hustle their way to great fortune.
- A fortune teller (Michael Hui), who gives pretentious forecasts, was investigated by a revenue agent (Leon Lai) for failing to pay his taxes. However, the teller's lucky break came when he received a blow to the head during a robbery attempt, resulting him in receiving psychic powers. Thus, hoping this would get the agent off his back, he uses his new-found powers to try to help the agent solve a drug smuggling case that has been plaguing the revenue service.
- When news anchor Michael Hui discovers he has cancer and only has three months to live, he decides to play it for all its worth on television for big ratings and lots of money.
- Inept Inspector Chu of the Hong Kong Police, along with his food-loving assistant Egg-Tart and beauty pageant contestant-turned-policewoman Chiao-Chiao, attempt to locate the missing twin son of TV personality Mrs. Lin.
- A wannabe musician named Fat (Michael Hui) witnesses a drug deal gone wrong. He flees to mobsters lead by Ironhand (Cheung-Yan Yuen ) and hops on a cruise ship with his partner-in-crime Tat (Siu-Tin Lai) to hide from the pursuing hit-men. On the ship, Fat takes to the liking of a beautiful singer named Din-Din (Cherie Chung).
- Yuen Tai-Yung (b. 1941) is the 2017 Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese painter known for his creation of over 200 iconic posters for films featuring some of the biggest stars on screen - Bruce Lee, The Hui Brothers (aka Mr Boo!), Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Stephen Chow from the 1970s to 1990s. This documentary chronicles director Hui See-Wai's search for the extraordinary artist and their subsequent encounters within 12 months. It provides an intimate and nostalgic look into the world of Yuen who defined the look of movie posters during what is widely regarded as the Golden Era of Hong Kong cinema. Since its release in 2016, "The Posterist" has gone on to complete two sold-out runs at Hong Kong's art-house cinemas and played to audiences at festivals in Singapore, Toronto and Beijing. The film won "Premi Del Jurat" at Festival Nits cinema oriental Vic Barcelona.