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God of Gamblers II (赌侠)

God of Gamblers II (赌侠; also released as Dou hap and Knight of Gamblers) is a 1990 Hong Kong action comedy directed and written by Wong Jing (王晶), starring Andy Lau and Stephen Chow, with Chow Yun-fat in a supporting appearance as Ko Chun, the God of Gamblers1 • 2. It continues the story of Lau's character Little Knife from God of Gamblers (1989) and brings him together with Chow's gambling saint Sing from All for the Winner (1990), making it a crossover of the two characters' film series3.

Key factDetail
Original title赌侠 (Dou hap), meaning "Knight of Gamblers"4
Director and writerWong Jing (王晶)2
Hong Kong release13 December 19901
Runtime and language99 minutes, Cantonese, color, stereo sound1
Production companyWin's Movie Production & I/E Co. (永盛电影制作有限公司)1 • 2
Lead castAndy Lau, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, Ng Man-Tat, Charles Heung, Sharla Cheung2
1990 Hong Kong box officeHK$40,342,758, fifth among the films in one compiled ranking of the year's comedies5
Follow-up赌侠II上海滩赌圣 (God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai, 1991)3

Spoilers

Plot

The film picks up one year after the events of God of Gamblers. Ko Chun (周润发, Chow Yun-fat), having defeated the gambling villain Chan Kam-Sing (赌魔陈金城) in a high-stakes duel on the open sea, took Little Knife (刀仔, Andy Lau) as his disciple and brought him to the United States to pass on his gambling skills1. A year later Little Knife returns to the gambling world accompanied by Lung Wu (龙五, Charles Heung), winning large sums on his master's behalf and donating them all to charity, which earns him the honorific "Knight of Gamblers" (赌侠)1 • 6.

Meanwhile Sing (阿星, Stephen Chow), the "Saint of Gamblers" whose winnings from his special powers cannot be kept for himself, wants to become Ko Chun's disciple and seeks out Little Knife for an introduction6. The two men start out suspicious of each other and match tricks and skills to a draw1 • 3. When Little Knife refuses to take Sing to see his master, Sing kneels outside his door6.

The villain's scheme. Hussein (侯赛因), Chan Kam-Sing's adopted son, seeks revenge for his adoptive father's defeat1. He stages a fraud on a gambling ship under the God of Gamblers' name, intending to swindle the wealthy of Southeast Asia and ruin Ko Chun's reputation, and takes Lung Wu, Lung Kau, and Uncle hostage so that Little Knife cannot expose his true identity1. In the finale Little Knife and Sing work together, one using the God of Gamblers' techniques and the other his special powers, to win a huge stake in the shortest time and defeat Hussein by trickery; Sing also gets his wish of meeting the God of Gamblers1.

Cast

The credited cast pairs the leads of the two parent films. Andy Lau plays Little Knife (also listed as Michael Chan, Dagger, or The Knight of Gamblers), Stephen Chow plays Chow Sing Cho, and Chow Yun-fat plays Ko Chun2. Supporting roles include Ng Man-Tat as Uncle Tat, Charles Heung as Lung Wu, John Ching as Tai-Kun, Sharla Cheung as Dream Lo, Blacky Ko as Panther, Monica Chan (陈法蓉) as Kowloon, Pal Sinn (单立文) as Hussein, and Pau Hon-Lam as Chan Kam-Sing2. Wong Jing also appears on screen as "Surprised Man"3.

Production and release

The film was produced by Win's Movie Production & I/E Co., the company of producer Jimmy Heung (向华胜)1 • 4. It opened in Hong Kong cinemas on 13 December 19901 • 3. Runtime is given as 99 minutes by the 1905 database, Apple TV, and Tube Culture, and as 100 minutes by the Cinemasie database1 • 2 • 3 • 4. The Hong Kong rating was IIA2. It earned HK$40,342,758 at the 1990 Hong Kong box office, where it ranked fifth among the comedy films in one compiled list of the year's top earners5.

Place in the gambling-film genre

The film belongs to the Hong Kong gambling-movie wave that God of Gamblers (1989), Casino Raiders (1989), and All for the Winner (1990) set in motion7. Its premise is a direct crossover: Lau's Little Knife carries the God of Gamblers storyline forward, while Chow's Sing arrives from All for the Winner, whose success had broken box-office records earlier the same year1 • 8. The pairing of orthodox gambling skill with Chow's supernatural special powers became the film's signature formula, and the character combination continued in the sequel 赌侠II上海滩赌圣 (God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai, 1991)3. The broader series eventually ran to more than ten sequels and spin-offs through the 1990s9.

References

  1. 赌侠 (1990) 详细资料, 1905电影网
  2. God of Gamblers II, Apple TV
  3. 賭俠 // 1990年電影, Tube Culture
  4. God of Gamblers 2, Cinemasie
  5. 90年代香港喜剧片票房数据表, 上海社会科学院 (g-city.sass.org.cn)
  6. 《賭俠》, Apple TV (Hong Kong)
  7. How Hong Kong's gambling film genre was spurred by Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow, South China Morning Post
  8. 賭霸, 香港電影資料館
  9. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol. 4 (2012)

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