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King of Beggars
Why this pick
Stephen Chow brings the same elastic, cheeky comic energy to a Qing-era underdog adventure, mixing outrageous physical gags with martial-arts spectacle and irreverence toward authority.
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MOVIE1992 1h 46m HKG
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story of Wai Siu-bo, a lecherous wimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a botched first assignment for the group, he is made a servant to the Emperor, the very person the Heaven and Earth society wants to overthrow. What follows is plenty of mayhem and laughter. But it ends with the exposure and escape of the fake Empress Dowager.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Deric Wan
Emperor Kang Xi
Damian Lau
Chan Kan Nam
Stephen Chow
Wei Siu Bo / Wilson Bond
Lau Kong
Chief Jon