Laughing Times

Laughing Times

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Traditional 滑稽時代
Simplified 滑稽时代
Mandarin Huá Jī Shí Dài
Cantonese Waat6 Kai2 Si4 Doi6
Directed by John Woo
Produced by Karl Maka
Screenplay by John Woo
Starring Dean Shek
Wong Wai
Karl Maka
Wu Ma
Lee Chung Keung
Chic Lau
Music by Frankie Chan
Cinematography Manny Ho
Edited by Tony Chow
Production
company
Distributed by Cinema City
Release dates
 24 December 1980
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$5,186,448.50

Laughing Times is a 1980 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by John Woo and starring Dean Shek as the Chinese Charlie Chaplin. This is the first film produced by Cinema City, a film company established by Shek, Karl Maka and Raymond Wong.

Plot

In the postwar community, where the economy is falling and many businesses are bleak. A starving wanderer named the Chinese Charlie Chaplin (Dean Shek) meets an orphan (Wong Wai) who was used to do illegal things by bad guy Master Ting (Karl Maka) and the two become fast friends. Later Charlie also meets a poor singer (Wong Sau Man), whom he develops a funny romance with, and a drunkard (Wu Ma). Due to humiliation from Ting, the drunkard turned to drinking. Later, Ting abducts the kid and the singer and Charlie and the drunkard finally rise up with ambition and risk their lives to save the kid and the singer while Ting was unable to evade the law.

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Box office

The film grossed HK$5,186,448.50 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 24 December 1980 to 11 January 1981 in Hong Kong.

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