# Sixty Million Dollar Man (百变星君)
**Sixty Million Dollar Man** (百變星君; [Cantonese](https://www.edgepedia.org/cantonese) romanization *Baak bin sing gwan*) is a 1995 Hong Kong science-fiction comedy starring [Stephen Chow](https://www.edgepedia.org/stephen-chow) as a spoiled rich playboy who is blown apart by gangsters and rebuilt as a cyborg able to transform into household objects. It was directed by Yip Wai-Man (葉偉民), written by Yip Wai-Man and Wong Jing (王晶), and produced by Wong Jing for Win's Entertainment.[1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html) • [2](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh) The film opened in Hong Kong and Taiwan on August 19, 1995, and earned HK$35,236,551 in Hong Kong, ranking third among 1995 Hong Kong releases.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112446/releaseinfo/) • [4](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | 百變星君 (*Baak bin sing gwan*); released in Taiwan as 百變金剛[4](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5) |
| Director / producer | Directed and co-written by Yip Wai-Man; produced by Wong Jing[1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html) |
| Release | August 19, 1995 (Hong Kong and Taiwan); South Korea November 9, 1996; Japan June 14, 1997[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112446/releaseinfo/) • [5](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/sixty-million-dollar-man/releases/) |
| Runtime | 92 minutes (the Hong Kong Film Archive catalog lists 90 minutes)[6](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man) • [1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html) |
| Hong Kong box office | HK$35,236,551, third place among 1995 Hong Kong films[4](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5) |
| Taiwan box office | NT$6,466,340[4](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5) |
| Lead cast | Stephen Chow, Gigi Leung, Ng Man-Tat, Paulyn Sun, Elvis Tsui[6](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Lee Chak-Sing (Stephen Chow) is the son of a Hong Kong tycoon, studying in Hawaii without attending class and spending freely while dominating the campus. He pursues a beautiful woman who turns out to be the mistress of a gang boss; caught during the gang's secret meeting, he is caught in an explosion that leaves only his mouth and brain functional.[6](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man) • [2](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh) In the film's setup, he discovers that his family's servant Tat (Ng Man-Tat) is his birth father, and during the gang attack he saves his father at the cost of his own body.[1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html)
Professor Chang Sze (Elvis Tsui), a university researcher of artificial organ transplantation and uncle of Sing's classmate Chung-Chung (Gigi Leung), rebuilds him with a synthetic body. The reconstruction is imperfect and prone to malfunction, and its transformations are limited to supermarket goods: toothpaste, a rice cooker, a microwave oven, and similar items.[2](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh) • [1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html) Back in Hong Kong, Sing works as a teacher tormented by his students before fighting back with his specially constructed body.[6](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man)
The gangsters spend sixty million dollars converting the killer Mark into an invincible robot with combat programs installed, and attack on the day Sing and Chung-Chung are to marry. Sing's chip transforms him into the Yellow Old Lady, a weapon drawn from supermarket advertising, and finally into a microwave oven that melts Mark with high heat.[2](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh)
### Interpretation
Scholarly commentary reads the film as more than a gag vehicle. A Hong Kong Film Archive essay argues that the story of Lee Chak-Sing, who overnight falls from rich heir to the illegitimate son of a servant and is reduced to a brain and a mouth, gives the most direct expression to Hong Kong people's identity crisis and fear of having nothing at the approach of 1997, rendered in the guise of a science-fiction comedy; the invincible chip transforms him not into high-tech weaponry but into everyday objects such as toilets and toothpaste, a distinctly local, street-level playfulness.[16](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/OLD-6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter86_e.pdf) The same essay places the cyborg premise against Hong Kong's pre-handover preoccupation with upward mobility and mechanistic efficiency.[16](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/OLD-6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter86_e.pdf) A UK retrospective in 2023 described the film as the odd duck of Chow's 1990s run because it opens with him playing a high-status character rather than an underdog, and called it a genuinely unhinged reaction to its moment.[17](https://www.ukchinafilm.com/stephen-chow/)
## Production and context
The film was made quickly. According to a 1905.com retrospective, Chow entered 1995 at a low point after the box-office failures of *[A Chinese Odyssey](https://www.edgepedia.org/a-chinese-odyssey)* and *Out of the Dark*, and rejoined Wong Jing, a director of commercial films, to recover market confidence; the picture went from preparation to release in just over a month, with a script that borrowed heavily from Hollywood films including *[The Mask](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-mask-1994-film)*, *Pulp Fiction*, and *RoboCop*.[7](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/61127/)
Attribution of the directing credit varies across databases. The Hong Kong Film Archive, Apple TV, AsianWiki, and IMDb credit Yip Wai-Man as director with Wong Jing as producer and co-writer,[1](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html) • [2](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh) • [6](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man) while some sources, including a Japanese reference work and a Taiwanese database, list Wong Jing as director.[8](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB00700524) • [9](https://tw.18dao.net/%E5%BD%B1%E8%A6%96%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99/%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B_%281995%29) A Hong Kong press retrospective likewise describes the film as "produced and directed by Wong Jing."[10](https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/110133/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%A0%B4-%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B-%E6%8A%84%E5%8D%A0%E5%9F%BA%E5%88%A9-%E4%BB%B2%E8%A8%98%E5%BE%97%E6%98%9F%E7%88%BA%E5%A3%93%E8%BB%B8%E8%AE%8A%E6%88%90%E5%92%A9%E6%AD%A6%E5%99%A8%E5%97%8E)
## Parody and reception
The film is built on parody of contemporaneous Hollywood movies. Reviewers identify riffs on *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* (1991), *The Mask* (1994), and *Pulp Fiction* (1994), including an almost shot-by-shot remake of the *Pulp Fiction* dance number, and note that the title itself riffs on the American series *The Six Million Dollar Man*.[11](https://www.sci-fi-central.com/Database/SF/03/2Q/index.php?TitleLanguage=Ger) • [12](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/baak-bin-sing-gwan-sixty-million-dollar-man) The transformation gimmick is deliberately low-tech: where the villain's robot carries a complete killing manual, Sing's knockoff body carries only a "supermarket manual," so his combat forms are household goods, culminating in the microwave-oven finale.[10](https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/110133/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%A0%B4-%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B-%E6%8A%84%E5%8D%A0%E5%9F%BA%E5%88%A9-%E4%BB%B2%E8%A8%98%E5%BE%97%E6%98%9F%E7%88%BA%E5%A3%93%E8%BB%B8%E8%AE%8A%E6%88%90%E5%92%A9%E6%AD%A6%E5%99%A8%E5%97%8E)
Contemporary reception was mixed. The hk01 retrospective records that the film's obvious borrowing from [Jim Carrey](https://www.edgepedia.org/jim-carrey)'s *The Mask*, combined with Hong Kong effects work that did not attempt to match Hollywood, produced a lukewarm response at the time, though the film was reevaluated by audiences years later.[10](https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/110133/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%A0%B4-%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B-%E6%8A%84%E5%8D%A0%E5%9F%BA%E5%88%A9-%E4%BB%B2%E8%A8%98%E5%BE%97%E6%98%9F%E7%88%BA%E5%A3%93%E8%BB%B8%E8%AE%8A%E6%88%90%E5%92%A9%E6%AD%A6%E5%99%A8%E5%97%8E) The hkfilm.net review calls it a stunningly average entry in Chow's output, praising his scenes with Ng Man-Tat while judging the special effects amateurish and the parodies derivative rather than satirical.[13](https://hkfilm.net/movrevs2/60mill.htm) A Far East Films review is harsher, calling it a lazy and unfunny outing in which the morphing-man concept is barely used.[14](https://fareastfilms.com/review/sixty-million-dollar-man/) Commercially, however, the film was a success: its HK$35.2 million take placed third in Hong Kong for 1995, behind *[Rumble in the Bronx](https://www.edgepedia.org/rumble-in-the-bronx)* (HK$56.91 million) and *Thunderbolt* (HK$45.67 million).[4](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5) • [15](https://epaper.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/jsgrb/2022-11-05/f0df1315061a61ba61d08df5a175a418.pdf)
## References
1. [百变星君, Hong Kong Film Archive program notes](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/sc/web/hkfa/pe-event-2018-7-1-13.html)
2. [《百变星君》, Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/sg/movie/%E7%99%BE%E5%8F%98%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B/umc.cmc.7ed3pw0q6zuw5eoc603po8z6o?l=zh)
3. [Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995) - Release info, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112446/releaseinfo/)
4. [百變金剛／百變星君, 周星馳影迷會星樂園](https://singchi.org/modules/library/article.php?id=42&lang=tchinese_utf8&p=5)
5. [Sixty Million Dollar Man releases, Letterboxd](https://embed.letterboxd.com/film/sixty-million-dollar-man/releases/)
6. [Sixty Million Dollar Man, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/Sixty_Million_Dollar_Man)
7. [百变星君 (1995), 1905电影网](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/61127/)
8. [百變星君 Sixty Million Dollar Man, CiNii Books](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB00700524)
9. [影視資料/百變星君 (1995), 實用查詢](https://tw.18dao.net/%E5%BD%B1%E8%A6%96%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99/%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B_%281995%29)
10. [〖午夜場〗《百變星君》抄占基利, HK01](https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/110133/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%A0%B4-%E7%99%BE%E8%AE%8A%E6%98%9F%E5%90%9B-%E6%8A%84%E5%8D%A0%E5%9F%BA%E5%88%A9-%E4%BB%B2%E8%A8%98%E5%BE%97%E6%98%9F%E7%88%BA%E5%A3%93%E8%BB%B8%E8%AE%8A%E6%88%90%E5%92%A9%E6%AD%A6%E5%99%A8%E5%97%8E)
11. [Sixty Million Dollar Man review, Sci-fi-central](https://www.sci-fi-central.com/Database/SF/03/2Q/index.php?TitleLanguage=Ger)
12. [Sixty Million Dollar Man, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/baak-bin-sing-gwan-sixty-million-dollar-man)
13. [The Sixty Million Dollar Man review, hkfilm.net](https://hkfilm.net/movrevs2/60mill.htm)
14. [Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995) Review, Far East Films](https://fareastfilms.com/review/sixty-million-dollar-man/)
15. [江苏商报 2022-11-05, 1995年香港票房报道](https://epaper.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/jsgrb/2022-11-05/f0df1315061a61ba61d08df5a175a418.pdf)
16. [香港喜劇電影的邊緣人, Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter 86](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/OLD-6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter86_e.pdf)
17. [Stephen Chow in Focus, Odyssey 2023, UK China Film](https://www.ukchinafilm.com/stephen-chow/)
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