Winner Takes All
Asian Cinema
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Classics, Comedy
A series of robberies committed by Japanese ninjas and bearing the stamp of the Shihs, a once-notorious family of burglars, attracts the interest of Kuan Te-hsing (Wang Yu) and Richard Burt (Mai Te-lo), two lowly assistants in the Yang Detective Agency. Meanwhile, a Japanese girl hires them to uncover the truth behind her father’s death and the family fortune stolen by her uncle.
DIRECTED BY JING WONG
HONG KONG | 1982 | CANTONESE, MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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