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From Riches to Rags

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Calorie Rating: 142
Released: 1980-07-10
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Studios: Orange Sky Golden Harvest,


Ricky and Fatso are friends in need. They are in dire need of money since they are only paid slave wages at the bottling factory. However, they become millionaires overnight after buying a winning lottery ticket. During one of their swingin' nights on the town, Ricky is suddenly attacked by an upset stomach; and in no time, a quack doctor diagnoses the seizure as terminal cancer. Ricky seriously considers suicide. But he is appalled by the drawbacks inherent in the available methods of doing himself in--primarily the pain! It is on a rooftop from which he is supposed to make a plunge that he saves a poor man from suicide by giving the latter all the money he has. In gratitude, the newly rich man promises to hire a killer to finish off his suffering benefactor...

Director / Directors

John Woo
Director


Cast

Ricky Hui
Character: Ricky
Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah
Character: Fatso
JoJo Chan Kei-Kei
Character: JoJo

Tong Ching
Character: Ling
Yik Ga
Character: Julia
Yip Ha-Lei
Character: Doctor Mong

Lam Ching-Ying
Character: Knife killer
Melvin Wong Gam-Sam
Character: Smoking pool player
Yue Tau-Wan
Character: Injecting killer

Tsang Choh-Lam
Character: Chuk/Ducky [uncredited]
John Woo
Character: [cameo]


Production and Crew

John Woo
Writer