From Riches to Rags (1980)

Original title

錢作怪

Directed by

John Woo

Genre

comedy film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 41m

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newly wealthy man is told he has cancer and hires hitmen to kill him. When he learns he is not sick, he cannot stop the assassination plot and spirals into madness.

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What happens

From Riches to Rags (Chinese: 錢作怪) is a 1980 Hong Kong action comedy film. It was written and directed by John Woo, starring Ricky Hui and Johnny Koo. In the film, a nouveau riche millionaire is convinced that he is dying from cancer. Getting suicidal, he hires contract killers to kill him. He soon realizes that he is healthy, but he is unable to call off his own assassination. He survives the assassination attempts, but becomes unhinged during his stay in a mental hospital. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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