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The Gambling Ghost (1991)
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Original name: 洪福齊天
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau. Fatty is a hotel worker, yearning for sudden wealth. Therefore, he, and his co-worker, enter the gambling world, to the dismay of his father. When Fatty hits rock bottom, the ghost of his grandfather resurrects to help him. However, Fatty learns that his grandfather was murdered, therefore, he will stop at nothing to avenge his death.
Style:
sitcom
Plot:
martial arts, gambling, ghost, revenge, fight, kung fu, goofball
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, humorous, exciting and semi serious films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, revenge, fistfight, kung fu master and kung fu classic mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Gambling Ghost: Where's Officer Tuba? (1986), Pedicab Driver (1989), Enter the Fat Dragon (1978), The Dead and the Deadly (1982), Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 95 min.
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Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Fan Kao-to is a worker who had enough of corruption in Shanghai. He tries to crush the organization alone. An attempt has been made before but ended up with the big Axe Gang, several of their brands in the man. The man's sister arrives in ...
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Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 105 min.
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Jackie Chan stars as a hot-shot lawyer hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, Jackie is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty ...
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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