Those Merry Souls (1985)
Original title: 時來運轉
Those Merry Souls is a 1985 Chinese-language comedy movie directed by Lau Kar-Wing, with a running time of 1h 35m. It stars Yuen Biao, Eric Tsang Chi-Wai and Stanley Fung Shui-Fan.
Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two movie stunt actors in Hong Kong and are suspicious of Lung's father Chiu's mysterious behavior. Unbeknownst to them, Chiu was commissioned as a "messenger" by the Spirit World to take newly-departed souls to the other side. When Tak suffers a major accident on the movie set, Chiu keeps Tak's soul from being taken away, thereby, reviving him.
Cast
- Yuen Biao as Chiu Chi-Lung
- Eric Tsang Chi-Wai as Ng Kuai-Tak
- Stanley Fung Shui-Fan as Uncle Chiu
- Lam Ching-Ying as Tak's father
- Elaine Jin Yan-Ling as Waterloo Tai
- Lily Li as Auntie Pearl
- Richard Ng Yiu-Hon as Fernando Ng
- Wu Ma as Ah Ma
- Sammo Hung Kam-Bo as Movie director
- Moon Lee as Fung
- Paul Chung Fat as Messenger of death
- Billy Lau Nam-Kwong as Doctor