1999 Hong Kong film
| The Tricky Master |
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 Film poster |
| Directed by | Wong Jing |
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| Written by | Wong Jing |
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| Produced by | Wong Jing |
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| Starring | Stephen Chow
Nick Cheung
Sandra Ng
Wong Jing
Kelly Lin
Suki Kwan |
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| Cinematography | Ko Chiu Lam |
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| Edited by | Sue Woo |
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| Music by | Lincoln Lo |
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Production
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Release date |
- 5 August 1999 (1999-08-05)
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Running time | 95 minutes |
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| Country | Hong Kong |
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| Language | Cantonese |
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| Box office | HK$19,141,640 (Hong Kong) |
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The Tricky Master (千王之王2000) is a 1999 Hong Kong crime comedy film directed by Wong Jing.[1]
The film is set in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. A police detective requests work on a major case, in hopes of a promotion. He is assigned with spying on a high-profile con-artist, and he loses his job when he is tricked by his subject. The disgraced detective then requests lessons in becoming a con-artist by an experienced master of the trade, as he seeks revenge.
Plot
Leung Foon is a happy-go-lucky man with a girlfriend named Pizza. He is a police detective in the Happy Valley Police Station. He is tasked as a small-time undercover with his superior nicknamed "Thousand Faced Man". After their undercover case of protecting a millionaire's daughter nearly failed, Leung was tired of taking undercover work and even protested to quit the police force if he is not given a big-time case. Eventually "Thousand Faced" gave Leung the biggest task of bringing a big-time swindler named Ferrari to justice. If he succeeds, he will be rewarded with a promotion, despite Leung failing his "preparedness test".
Leung first starts the investigation by doing what he does best, going undercover as a "invited guest" heading towards Ferrari's beach. As he arrived on the shore, he met First Love, a con-woman in disguise of a sweet, cool girl and asking for her phone number (she typed a vulgarity on his mobile phone). After one of Ferrari's henchmen, Fat Pig splashed on Leung at the beach, he was taken to Ferrari's mansion to become one of his security guards.
After Leung realized he was tricked by Ferrari and one of his con-women, First Love along with losing his job after Ferrari encrypted all his server's data with a computer virus. He knew what was going on when Leung tried to burn a CD with some data from one of his computers to take as evidence. Leung was forced to approach Pizza's brother-in-law Master Wong, a gifted conman whom he and Pizza met in Macau (and hated by Leung) to learn his skills and become a conman with a vengeance.
Reception
The film grossed HK19,141,640 (US$2.46 million) in Hong Kong.[2][3]
