The Last Message
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DVD cover
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| Directed by | Michael Hui |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow |
| Written by | Michael Hui Lau Tin-chi Louis Sit |
| Starring |
Michael Hui Samuel Hui |
| Music by | Samuel Hui Joseph Koo |
| Cinematography | Cheung Yiu-cho Yu Chun |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
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Release date
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21 August 1975 |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$4,553,662 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 天才與白痴 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 天才与白痴 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "The Genius and the Idiot" | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Tián Cái Yú Bái Chī |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Tin1 Coi4 Jyu2 Baak6 Ci1 |
The Last Message is a 1975 Hong Kong comedy film directed by and starring Michael Hui, and co-starring Samuel Hui, with a cameo appearance by Ricky Hui. This is the second film of the Hui Brothers.
Tim (Michael Hui) and Lee (Samuel Hui) are employees of a mental hospital working as an orderly and nurse respectively. One day a crazy man named Cheng Ming (Roy Chiao) is institutionalized who carries a bag of trash. Tim and Lee discover that the bag is full of artifacts from the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, they are all broken pieces and cannot be traded for money. Then, Cheng talks about a Princess and Tim and Lee figure that Cheng knows where are the artifacts from. Later on, Cheng dies from heart attack and Tim and Lee find Princess (Eileen Humphreys) and find out that she is Cheng's daughter. Princess tells them that her father discovered a sunk boat at the coast of Hong Kong. Tim and Lee starts to plan for their luxurious life, including quitting their jobs, and set out to find the artifacts. They do discover tons of it and brings it to trade for money. However, the ones Tim and Lee find are revealed to be fakes. With their dreams of luxury over, Lee gets his job back and Tim got insane and became a mental patient.
Tin choi yu bak chi (天才與白痴) is an album by Samuel Hui, released in 1975 by Polydor Records in Hong Kong. The first four tracks of the album are heard in the film.
All tracks written by Samuel Hui, unless otherwise.
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