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1972 Hong Kong film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Casino (Chinese: 吉祥赌坊; Jixiang Dufang) is a 1972 Hong Kong drama Shaw Brothers Studio film directed by Cheung Chang Chak.[1]
The film's alternative titles in Hong Kong are Jixiang dufang and Gat cheung do fong. The Casino is a drama martial arts film with characters in a gambling environment.[2][3] The film is set "in North China soon after the 1911 Revolution".[4] It is one of the three gambling films Chang Tseng-Chai, a Taiwanese director, made for the Hong Kong production company Shaw Brothers Studio.[5] The film has been considered the first notable production in Hong Kong on the topic.[6]
A handsome stranger, Luo, visits a casino in Northern China. A gambler agrees to help an old friend defeat a crooked gambler that uses rigged dice.[2][7]
On March 30, 1972, the film was released in Hong Kong.
A DVD version was released in 2004.[8]
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