2 Movies Directed by Jeffrey Lau

All for the Winner

All for the Winner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-08-18

Languages:

Cantonese

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1291 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionComedy

Fullplot:

Sing, a dumb, lovable mainlander with supernatural powers comes to China to visit his uncle Tat. When it's revealed that Sing can see through objects, Tat employs him as "The Saint of Gamblers," and proceeds to set him loose in the gambling world.

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-06

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1927 Reviews)

Director:

Jeffrey Lau

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey Lau (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still runs a restaurant in Meilong. When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herself as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusions, complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and gender-roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the interventions of a goddess to get everyone back on the right road. But it may be already too late to heal the wounds of disappointment and separation.

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