MOVIE INFO
Title: Challenge of The Gamesters
Other Titles: Chin Wong Dau Chin Ba, Qian Wang Dou Qian Ba
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1981
Genre: Drama, Gambling, Action, Comedy
Director and Writer: Wong Jing
Action Director: Yuen Cheung-Yan
Cast: Wong Yu, Patrick Tse, Chen Kuan-Tai...
Producer: Nona Fong
Production: Shaw Brothers
Runtime: 99 min.
Audio: Cantonese
Subtitles: English str
PLOT
A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would go on to dominate Hong Kong cinema for the next two decades. Although rife with Japanese spies, Shanghai tycoons, beautiful starlets, and enough intrigue to keep 007 happy, Bond himself would be no match for the heroes' skill at mahjong and other games Hong Kong gamblers play--proving that the cube is often mightier than the baccarat card.
Challenge of the Gamesters is a prequel to the popular TV miniseries "The Shell Game" (which Wong himself wrote, with his father Wong Tin-Lam handling the directing duties). It tells the story of Lo Sei-Hoi (Patrick Tse), a master gambler who is hired by the government to investigate Zhang Lie (Chen Kuan-Tai), whom they believe is selling secrets to the Japanese. Along with his protoge Lei Li (Wong Yue), Lo crafts a daring plan to infiltrate Zhang's house in order to get into a seemingly inpenetrable safe to rescue some valuable documents.
TECHNICAL INFO
General: Challenge of The Gamesters.avi
Format: AVI at 983 Kbps
Length: 699 MiB for 1h 39mn 23s 458ms
Video #0: MPEG-4 Visual at 854 Kbps
Aspect: 720 x 320 (2.250) at 29.970 fps
Audio #0: MPEG Audio at 115 Kbps
Infos: 2 channels, 48.0 KHz
Language: zh
LINKS:
HKCINEMAGIC: http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/movie.asp?id=4123
HKMDB: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6231&display_set=eng
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082155/