Cat vs Rat

Cat vs. Rat
movie poster

Traditional	御貓三戲錦毛鼠
Simplified	御猫三戏锦毛鼠
Mandarin	Yù Māo Sān Xì Jĭn Máo Shŭ
Cantonese	Jyu⁶ Maau¹ Saam¹ Hei³ Gam² Mou⁴ Syu²
Directed by	Liu Chia-liang
Produced by	Mona Fong
Written by	I Kuang
Starring	Alexander Fu Sheng Adam Cheng Kara Hui Hsiao Ho Gordon Liu Lydia Shum Lau Kar-wing
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

Cat vs. Rat is a Shaw Brothers martial arts-comedy film directed by Lau Kar Leung, starring Alexander Fu, Adam Cheng, Kara Hui and Hsiao Ho. The plot is loosely based on the 19th century wuxia classic novel The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants.

Plot

Baak Juktong and Zin Ciu were martial arts students of the same sifu, Si Daatfu. They quarreled and fought incessantly over who had the most powerful kungfu. Baak saved the emperor, traveling in the region in plain clothes, but did not believe his identity when the emperor offered him officialdom. Later, Zin also saved the emperor, who appointed him imperial sword-bearing guard with the title "Royal Cat". Jealous and infuriated, especially because his nickname was "Brocade-Coated Rat" (rats were known as cat food), Baak and his four sworn brothers — Zoeng Ping the "River-Overturning Rat", Ceoi Hing the "Mountain-Boring Rat", Hon Zoeng the "Earth-Piercing Rat" and Lou Fong the "Sky-Penetrating Rat" — plotted to steal the imperial jade seal from the emperor to embarrass Zin.

Cast and Characters (in order of appearance)

Note: The characters' names are in Cantonese (Jyutping) romanisation. Mandarin (Pinyin) romanisation is included in parentheses when helpful.

Kara Hui as Zin Juklaan
Hsiao Ho as Zoeng Ping (Jiang Ping)
Alexander Fu Sheng as Baak Juktong (Bai Yutang)
Adam Cheng as Zin Ciu (Zhan Zhao)
Lau Kar-wing as Si Daatfu
Lydia Shum as Baak's mother
Gordon Liu as the emperor
Lam Fai-wong as Can Gim
Wang Lung-wei as Ceoi Hing (Xu Qing)
Ching Chu as Hon Zoeng (Han Zhang)
Cheung Chin-pang as Lou Fong (Lu Fang)

External links

Yu mao san xi jin mao shu at the Internet Movie Database
Cat Vs. Rat at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase

Films directed by Lau Kar-leung

Challenge of the Masters (1976)
Dirty Ho (1976)
Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
The Deadly Mantis (1978)
Heroes of the East (1978)
Deadly Strike (1978)
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979)
Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
My Young Auntie (1981)
Martial Club (1981)
Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
Cat vs Rat (1982)
Lady Is the Boss (1983)
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985)
Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Tiger on Beat (1988)
Aces Go Places 5: The Terracotta Hit (1989)
Drunken Master II (1994)
Drunken Master III (1994)
Drunken Monkey (2003)

Shi Yukun's The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants

Characters

The Seven Heroes	Ouyang Chun Zhan Zhao Ding Zhaolan Ding Zhaohui Shen Zhongyuan Zhi Hua Ai Hu

The Five Gallants / Rats	Lu Fang Han Zhang Xu Qing Jiang Ping Bai Yutang

Kaifeng Court	Bao Zheng Gongsun Ce

The Imperial Palace	Emperor Zhenzong Emperor Renzong Empress Dowager Liu Concubine Li Kou Zhu The Eighth Prince

Other characters	Pang Ji Ding Yuehua

Film

Inside the Forbidden City (1965)
King Cat (1967)
House of Traps (1982)
Cat and Mouse (2003)

TV series

The Three Heroes and Five Gallants (1991)
Justice Pao (1993)
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants (1994)
Justice Bao (2008)
Justice Bao (2010–2012)
Invincible Knights Errant (2011)
The Three Heroes and Five Gallants (2016)

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