All for the Winner

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All for the Winner
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All for the Winner DVD cover
Directed by Jeffrey Lau
Corey Yuen
Produced by Jeffrey Lau
Corey Yuen
Screenplay by Jeffrey Lau
Story by Jeffrey Lau
Ng See-Yuen
Corey Yuen
Starring Stephen Chow
Ng Man-tat
Sharla Cheung
Sandra Ng
Paul Chun
Corey Yuen
Jeffrey Lau
Music by Lowell Lo
Cinematography Jimmy Leung
Chan Yuen-kai
Edited by Poon Hung
Production
company
Golden Harvest Productions
Seasonal Film Corporation
Wellstreet Productions
Distributed by Golden Harvest
Release dates
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  • 18 August 1990 (1990-08-18)
Running time
101 min
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Mandarin
Box office HK$41,326,156

All for the Winner (Chinese: 賭聖 Literal translation: Saint of Gambling) is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau and Corey Yuen.


Plot

Sing (Stephen Chow) is a mainland China country boy who arrives in Hong Kong to visit his Uncle "Blackie Tat" (Ng Man-tat). When Sing stays with his uncle and his friends in their apartment, Blackie soon learns of Sing's supernatural ability to see through objects and, later on, his ability to change playing cards by rubbing them. He takes advantage of this and turns Sing into the Dou Seng or the "Saint of Gamblers". After getting into a fight with several alleyway gamblers he meets the lovely Yee-mung (lit. trans: Beautiful Dream, but euphemistically as wet dream), a henchman for the "King of Gamblers", and becomes infatuated with her. Sing quickly becomes a rival to the King and must win his way through a world competition to prove his skill.

Sequels

While All for the Winner itself was initially a parody of God of Gamblers, it was such a well-received film that it spawned many sequels of its own. The story was also officially tied into the God of Gamblers continuity as of God of Gamblers II. Although God of Gamblers II was as much of a sequel to All for the Winner as it was to the original God of Gamblers film, there is another separate film titled God of Gamblers' Return that is billed as the one "true" direct sequel to the God of Gamblers franchise.

Cast and roles

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Award nominations

References

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