Fat Choi Spirit
| Fat Choi Spirit | |
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| Traditional | 嚦咕嚦咕新年財 |
| Simplified | 呖咕呖咕新年财 |
| Mandarin | Lì Gū Lì Gū Xīn Nián Cái |
| Cantonese | Li1 Gu1 Li1 Gu4 San1 Nin4 Coi4 |
| Directed by |
Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai |
| Produced by | Johnnie To Wai Ka-fai |
| Written by | Wai Ka-fai Yau Nai-hoi Au Kin-yee |
| Starring |
Andy Lau Lau Ching-wan Louis Koo Gigi Leung Cherrie In |
| Music by | Raymond Wong |
| Cinematography |
Cheng Siu-Keung To Hung-mo |
| Edited by |
Law Wing-cheung Yau Chi-wai |
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| Distributed by | China Star Entertainment Group |
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Release date
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8 February 2002 |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$19,218,759 |
Fat Choi Spirit (traditional Chinese: 嚦咕嚦咕新年財; simplified Chinese: 呖咕呖咕新年财) is a 2002 Hong Kong comedy film produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, and starring Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, Gigi Leung and Cherrie In.
The film is a comedy, falling into the peculiar Hong Kong genre of Mahjong films, and was released during the Lunar New Year of 2002.
Andy is an extremely compulsive Mahjong player. Thrown out of the house by his mother and ignored by his more academically gifted and successful younger brother, Louis, he had a hard time running away from debt collectors until one day he met a young girl named Gigi after a run-in with some of the debt collectors' men. Gigi started out as a thief, but because she fell for him and gave him immense luck, Andy gained great success with his extreme good luck in mahjong games and became very rich. However he refused to marry Gigi because she, though a nice woman when with him, was in reality quite a sore loser who threw temper tantrums while on the verge of losing mahjong games. She could not understand that he couldn't stand the way she behaved. As Andy said, her behaviour could be revealed by just playing a game of mahjong where when she lost, she would throw the tables. He promised her that he would marry her if she could play a game of mahjong without such a bad temper. She couldn't and so he couldn't marry her though he loved her. In the meantime, Andy found his mother who was now suffering from Alzheimer's disease and his brother who faced bankruptcy and moved in with Andy, who coincidentally lived in a bungalow. Not wanting to lose out in finding a job, Louis who had excellent luck in Mahjong but zero skill, was conned out of all his money and even his clothes by a skilled, yet devious mahjong player, Sean, portrayed by Lau Ching-wan. But being a kind hearted simpleton, a woman on the con team, (Cherrie) fell for him and decided to mend her ways.
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