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The usually annoying Chan Bak Cheung turns in a subtle performance as Ho Bee Fat, a self made "King of Gamblers" with three wives and a string of successful mahjong parlors. He's seventy years of age, so he should be passing on sometime soon. Unfortunately, his successors all blow his three wives and their children are mostly moneygrubbers who want Ho's entire fortune via his as yet unspecified will. The first half of the film is antics and more antics, as everyone spars incessantly, with the unfortunate victim usually being Ho Bee Fat himself. Aside from generally talking behind his back, his annoying family also poisons his soup, leading to some scatological humor and the awful mental image of Chan Bak Cheung spending about six hours in a bathroom.
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