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Laughing Times is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by John Woo with Dean Shek
Laughing Times (1980)
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Add to a movie listLaughing Times is a 1980 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by John Woo and starring Dean Shek as the Chinese Charlie Chaplin. This is the first film produced by Cinema City, a film company established by Shek, Karl Maka and Raymond Wong.
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In the postwar community, where the economy is falling and many businesses are bleak. A starving wanderer named the Chinese Charlie Chaplin (Dean Shek) meets an orphan (Wong Wai) who was used to do illegal things by bad guy Master Ting (Karl Maka) and the two become fast friends. Later Charlie also meets a poor singer (Wong Sau Man), whom he develops a funny romance with, and a drunkard (Wu Ma). Due to humiliation from Ting, the drunkard turned to drinking. Later, Ting abducts the kid and the singer, prompting Charlie and the drunkard to finally rise up with ambition and risk their lives to save the kid and the singer and eventually, Ting was unable to evade the law.Actors
Dean Shek
(Chinese Chaplin)
Karl Maka
(Master Ting)
Wu Ma
(Drunkard)
Chiu Chi Ling
(street performer)
Wong Yat-fei
(Man getting scalp)
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