1980s Hong Kong Comedy Movies
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- DirectorMichael HuiStarsMichael HuiSamuel HuiRicky HuiChou 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.
- English title: 'Security Unlimited' (1981)
- Cast: Michael Hui, Sam Hui and Ricky Hui
- DirectorZhizhong CaiMing Chin TsaiSau-Yee Wu
- English title: 'Older Master Cute Part III' (1983)
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- DirectorJohn WooStarsJosephine SiaoRicky HuiRoman TamJosephine Siao is hired by a C. E. O. To teach his father manners and how to act like a "gentleman" in public. A goofy slapstick comedy that also features Ricky Hui as Josephine's long suffering boyfriend. John Woo stars as himself.
- English title: 'Plain Jane to the Rescue' (1982)
- Cast: Josephine Siao, Ricky Hui, Roman Tam, Maggie Li and Bowie Woo
- DirectorClifton KoStarsRaymond Pak-Ming WongFennie YuenMay Mei-Mei LoA high school teacher constantly has pranks played on him by the students. He becomes a ghost with magical powers, but they keep getting him in trouble with his superiors.
- English title: 'Happy Ghost II' (1985)
- DirectorStanley Wing SiuStarsAnita MuiAnthony ChanWai-Hong Woo30-something Yau has vowed never to marry a woman who plays Mahjong, owing to the fact that his own mother was cursed with that gambling addiction and subsequently brought calamity to his family as a child. On a fateful day at the beach after yet another breakup, he meets Mui, a charismatic young woman who declares her hate for Mahjong. Has Yau finally met the woman of his dreams? A wacky gag fest and comedy of errors ensues as we follow their courtship.
- English title: 'Why, Why, Tell Me Why' (1986)
- Cast: Anita Mui and Anthony Chan
- DirectorClifton KoStarsBill TungLydia ShumElsie ChanIn the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, their luck and lives ultimately change when Bill's wife suddenly wins the lottery.
- English title: 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World' (1987)
- DirectorAnthony ChanStarsKenny BeeAnita MuiAnthony ChanNewly married Kenny Bee soon becomes a not-so-happy bigamist when his ex-wife decides to move back in with him and his new bride.
- English title: 'The Happy Bigamist' (1987)
- Cast: Anthony Chan, Anita Mui, Patricia Ha and Kenny Chung
- DirectorJing WongStarsChow Yun-FatEric TsangMaggie CheungWong, a mechanic who falls for a beautiful rich girl played by Maggie Cheung. When Wong finds out his friend also like her, he must fight him for her attention.
- English title: 'The Romancing Stars' (1987)
- Cast: Chow Yun Fat and Maggie Cheung
- DirectorEric TsangStarsAnn BridgewaterCharine ChanCharlie ChoThe Happy Ghost girls are interested in the Grasshopper boys, but family tradition prohibits the girls from dating until their older domineering sister finds a husband.
- English title: 'Trouble Couples' (1987)
- Cast: Anita Mui, Eric Tsang, Happy Girl Group (group) and Grasshopper (group)
- DirectorJing WongStarsAndy LauStanley Sui-Fan FungPak-Cheung ChanThe three romancers played by Shui-Fan Fung, Eric Tsang and Pak-cheung Chan enter show business and join the ratings-struggling Chow TV station, run by Lao Chow (Hoi-Pang Lo), to boost their careers and attempt to court an aspiring actress and a beauty pageant candidate. While Chow TV's ratings improve, competing Channel 8 TV, run by Simon Hing (Jing Wong), concocts a scheme to sabotage Chow TV's productions.
- English title: 'The Romancing Star II' (1988)
- Cast: Andy Lau
- DirectorJing WongStarsAndy LauStanley Sui-Fan FungPak-Cheung ChanA rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother defeat his greedy elder brother at his own game? Only Wong Jing and his usual cronies can sort out this mess with hysterical results and oddball humor.
- English title: 'The Crazy Companies' (1988)
- Cast: Andy Lau and Chingmy Yau
- DirectorDavid ChiangStarsBill TungLydia ShumEric TsangSiu-Fung (Lydia Sum), an owner of a pizzeria, unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack. However, her spirit was unable to cross over to the other side, thus, she resurrects into the body of a young woman (Maggie Cheung). Afterward, she reunites with her family and tries to convince them that she is alive. Yet, the plot thickens when a woman, unrelated to the family and is physically identical to Siu-Fung, appears, and Siu-Fung's husband (Bill Tung) thinks that that woman is his wife.
- English title: 'Double Fattiness' (1988)
- Cast: Bill Tung, Lydia Sum and Maggie Cheung
- DirectorClifton KoStarsMichael HuiRicky HuiSylvia ChangOld 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.
- English title: 'Chicken and Duck Talk' (1988)
- Cast: Michael Hui, Ricky Hui, Sylvia Chang, Lowell Lo and Lawrence Ng
- DirectorJing WongStarsChow Yun-FatAndy LauJoey WangA master gambler loses his memory and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.
- English title: 'God of Gamblers' (1989)
- Cast: Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Joey Wong and Sharla Cheung
- DirectorSiu-Hung LeungStarsJacky CheungMaggie CheungBill Tung"Romeo and Juliet" in Hong Kong, except the widow Capulet is father Montague's childhood sweetheart. The young lovers try to reconcile their mothers with the help of the father, who is left with a bad taste in his mouth.
- English title: 'Mother vs Mother' (1988)
- Cast: Bill Tung, Lydia Sum, Tang Bik-wan, Jacky Cheung and Maggie Cheung