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From Riches to Rags (DVD) (1980) Hong Kong Movie
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From Riches to Rags

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From Riches to Rags

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  • Cantonese, Mandarin
  • Subtitle
  • English, Chinese
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  • Title : From Riches to Rags
  • Running time: Appx. 102 minutes
  • Date of airing / In cinema : 1980
  • Listing date : 15 Mar 2012
  • Disc Qty : 1 pcs
  • Weight : 150(g)
  • Production country : Hong Kong

  • Directed by
  • John Woo
  • Cast by
  • Ricky Hui , Johnny Koo , JoJo Chan , Tong Jing , Chan Laap Ban , Melvin Wong , Chan Kim Wan , Lam Ching Ying , To Siu Ming , Ma Chao
  • Synopsis
  • Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. Yes, they are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. Ricky and Fatso buy a lottery ticket. They become millionaires overnight. In one of these nights out in town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach. In no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer.

    Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is also appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the many methods of doing himself in - primarily the pain. It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finised off his suffering benefactor……

  • Synopsis
  • Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. Yes, they are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. Ricky and Fatso buy a lottery ticket. They become millionaires overnight. In one of these nights out in town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach. In no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer.

    Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is also appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the many methods of doing himself in - primarily the pain. It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finised off his suffering benefactor……
Directed by
John Woo

Cast by
Ricky Hui
Johnny Koo
JoJo Chan
Tong Jing
Chan Laap Ban
Melvin Wong
Chan Kim Wan
Lam Ching Ying
To Siu Ming
Ma Chao