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One of Hong Kong’s top directors reunited with its biggest comedy star after several previous hits (Royal Scoundrel, Justice, My Foot) – only this time their subject was the gods themselves. Internationally proclaimed comic genius Stephen Chow plays petty, arrogant god Dragon Fighter Lo Han, who is changed into “Monk Chai” and ordered to alter the fates of three bad people on Earth, lest he be retransmigationized. Unfortunately for him (but to any viewer’s delight), the trio he finds are a prostitute (played by the radiant, remarkably talented Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), a beggar (played by award-winning actor Anthony Wong), and a cold-blooded killer. Chow and To wring honest pathos and many laughs from this wonderful scenario, ably supported by the star’s welcome sidekick Ng Man-tat and vaunted action director Ching Siu-tung (the director of A Chinese Ghost Story and the producer of The Heroic Trio).
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( September 2018) The gods in heaven complaining to the about the malicious practical jokes played on them. The Emperor summons Dragon's sworn-brother, Tiger Fighter Lohan , in order to find Dragon. Dragon eventually appears and rebuke the various gods for their horrible judgments on mankind. He insisted he can do a better job and is banished to be reincarnated into an animal by the Jade Emperor.
The intervene and issues Dragon a challenge. If he can change the fates of three people—a beggar, a prostitute, and a villain—doomed to nine incarnations as their current position in life within three heavenly days (thirty years), without heavenly powers, he will be upgraded in heavenly status. If he fails, he will be downgraded from an to an animal. The Bodhisattva gives him a magical fan that can only be used three times a day for -like magic tricks to help him in his mission. However, heavenly soldiers force him down from heaven before he has the fan in hand. When Dragon's future parents visit a Buddhist temple to pray for a child, the statue of leaps from a wall containing the major arhats, signaling his rebirth on earth.
While Dragon grows into manhood (only a few moments in heavenly time), Tiger enlists the aid of a heavenly soldier (Wong Yut Fei) to help him reincarnate on earth so he can bring Dragon the magical fan. However, the heavenly soldier mistakenly causes Tiger to be born to an extremely old woman and the fan to a much younger woman. He then uses his magic breath to cause Tiger to rapidly grows to his proper age but with the brain of a baby. Dragon's earthly parents later adopt the 'idiot' and treat him like an infant son.
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