From Riches to Rags (1980)

Plot Summary

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...

Full Cast & Characters

Ricky Hui Koon-Ying

Ricky

Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah

Fatso

JoJo Chan Kei-Kei

JoJo

Tong Ching

Ling

Yik Ga

Julia

Yip Ha-Lei

Doctor Mong

Lam Ching-Ying

Knife killer

Melvin Wong

Smoking pool player

Yue Tau-Wan

Injecting killer

Tsang Choh-Lam

Chuk/Ducky [uncredited]

John Woo

[cameo]

Benz Kong To-Hoi

Director & Crew

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