Avengers from Hell
Three macabre short stories about gambling, vengeance and homicide.
Lee Pooi-Kuen
Casts & Crew
Alex Man
Qiqi Chen
Lee Yin-Yin
Philip Chan Yan-Kin
Yiu Wai
Lily Chan
Jenny Liang
Chun Wong
Aai Dung-Gwa
Pak Man-Biu
Tong Tin-Hei
Lau Hak-Suen
Hon Lai-Fan
Also Directed by Lee Pooi-Kuen
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
In America, there's such "game" movies as The Sting. But in Asia, it's often about the fascinating game of mahjong, and this is one of the best. Teen idol Nicholas Tse was just one year old when his father Patrick Tse (a.k.a. Shih Hsien) starred in this number one Christmas holiday hit about a hero who helps a young student vanquish a cunning, malicious gambling tycoon who's out to take over the family business.
In “82 Tenants” the widow Zhang and Bing, her new young consort, want to sell an apartment house to a property developer but old man Zhang's will provided that the current tenants can stay there as long as they want or the building survives. So it is clear who the villains are—joining the greedy couple is Chao who has purchased all the land around the building but needs this final piece so he can know everything down and build a money spinning edifice. One the other side are the tenants, a disparate group whose grudgingly and occasionally antagonistically shared communal life, while not ideal, is certainly better than not having a place to live.