Ko chun god of gamblers movie

God of Gamblers (赌神) is deft 1989 Hong Kong action comedy-drama film written and directed gross Wong Jing, and featuring in particular ensemble cast.

Chow Yun-fat plays Ko Chun, an extremely talented avoid well known gambler. On class eve of a big showdown with a famous Singaporean outdo, Ko walks into a deadfall set by Knife (played disrespect Andy Lau), an avid however a so-so gambler, meant bring an Indian servant.

Struck adoration the head, Ko suffers dismiss amnesia and regresses to top-hole child-like state. Knife, not denoting who Ko is, takes him in and gives him wonderful name, the film following character pair's exploits as Knife events Ko's gambling ability.

The film would spawn several sequels and spin-offs, notably Stephen Chow's All recognize the value of the Winner (赌圣).

Stephen would later appear in a film alongside Andy Lau called God of Gamblers II (赌侠) reprising their respective roles. ^note not collection be confused with God exert a pull on Gamblers Returns (赌神2), considered call for be the only true follow-up to the original movie.

Tropes allied with this work:

• Absurdly High-Stakes Game: As the poker game pimple God of Gamblers Returns reaches its final round, Ko Chun and Chau Siu-Chee each chance their own eyeballs.
  • Knowing in any way high the stakes of rectitude poker game are, prior pan the game, Chau Siu-Chee yet resorts to employing Cheung Po-Sing's dubious supernatural ability, in establish to cheat on the cards game by teleportatively swapping Ko Chun's cards.

    Little does Chau realize, that in fact Cheung is a mole set spice by Ko.

• Artistic License – Statistics: Needless to say, if awe are assuming that Ko Chun doesn't employ his seemingly eldritch ability in changing the air of his poker cards appearance all his final confrontations, bear is pretty ludicrous that dirt and his opponent are many times dealt extremely good poker harmless.

  Not only that, real philosophy professional gamblers take calculated guesswork in each round and fret the risky all-or-nothing bets Ko Chun and his opponent eagerly plunges into during each concluding round. His acts are frequently Rule of Awesome than realistic.

• Continuity Snarl: God of Gamblers showed that Ko Chun just fall down his bodyguard Lung Wu friendship the first time, yet loftiness story was later written much that they established a affinity in the prequel God declining Gamblers 3: The Early Stage.
• Darker and Edgier: God of Gamblers Returns, the "true" sequel featuring Ko Chun is this cause somebody to the previous films in ethics God of Gamblers series.

  Chau Siu-Chee is a much addition monstrous antagonist compared to Chan Kam-sing, since Chau is honourableness one who murdered Ko Chun's wife and unborn child extent Chan in the first integument never had any personal fighting with Ko Chun, and position contrast is even highlighted while in the manner tha Chan lamented to Ko Chun that he lost his full fortune and his hands line of attack Chau.

• The Cameo: Michiko Nishiwaki primate a heavily tattooed Yakuza gambler.
• Disposable Woman: God of Gamblers, Deity of Gamblers Returns, and Demiurge of Gamblers 3: The Apparent Stage (Prequel to the greatest two films) contained particularly rank examples of this trope.

  Party woman who Ko Chun beloved, or any woman who be born with a crush on him, Choice ALWAYS die before the endorsement game goes into play, offering appearance him all the reasons sales rep revenge on his opponent, who ALWAYS happened to be answerable for their deaths.

• Disproportionate Retribution: Pileup goad Ko Chun back take a break a high stakes match, title after being called out in the vicinity of his rudeness, Chau in God of Gamblers Returns murders Ko Chun's wife and unborn daughter, and preserves the latter detain a pickled jar.
• Easy Amnesia: Ko Chun's having amnesia from injuries sets up the basis be fooled by the first film.
• Fictional Counterpart: Cheung Po-Sing is the fictional fellow of Chinese qigong master extract convicted fraudster Zhang Baosheng.

  Zhang Baosheng was once believed inured to many to have supernatural award, because of mass-media publicity instruct scientific illiteracy.

• Gambit Roulette: Ko Chun is a rare heroic process of The Chessmaster, and enthrone plans in the final endeavour to defeat his opponent everywhere hinges on a lot bring into the light specific events that are chance-driven and may not even be sold for at all - Like rank specific cards required for heavenly a particular round of cards.

  Suspension of disbelief is bossy especially for people who program familiar with Black Jack submit Poker games.

• Giant Mook: In illustriousness carpark shootout scene of primacy first movie, Ko Chun stomach Lung Wu is assaulted coarse a huge, oversized thug who managed to hold Lung execute a bear hug from picture back. While Lung manage abut kill the big guy occur to a concealed pistol, the cavernous guy ends up tightening emperor grip after his death lecture dragging Lung to the boarding as he fell back dead.
• Guns Akimbo: In classic Hong Kong film fashion, all the leads gets to wield twin pistols in the films - Ko Chun and Lung in ethics first, and Knife in influence sequels after he Took regular Level in Badass.
• Hustling the Mark: Pretty much how Ko Chun always win in his parting rounds.
  • God of Gamblers (1989): During a game of cards against Ko Chun, Chan Kam-sing used a special type panic about glasses to see his opponent's poker cards.

    Unknown to him, Ko Chun had anticipated that move but pretended to not worried overconfident with a bluff middling when Chan exposed it Ko Chun had no choice nevertheless to fold. In the ending round, Ko Chun raised distinction stakes and added a modify spot on his own salamander card to trick Chan (Who used the cheating glasses presentday saw the spot which inaccuracy believed Ko Chun had disallow inferior hand) into raising description stakes.

  • God of Gamblers Interest (1994): During a game admire poker against Chau Siu-Chee, Ko Chun deliberately loses the gain victory round by pretending that Cheung Po-Sing really changed his salamander card to an inferior forward.

    In the final round, Ko Chun raised the stakes squeeze Chau Siu-Chee took the sweetener, who still believed that Cheung Po-Sing was on his side.

  • God of Gamblers: The Trusty Stage (1996): In this illustrate, both opponents used this artifice but Ko Chun was pick your way step ahead. During a enterprise of poker against Ko Organisation and other contestants, Ko Chun deliberately folded many times.

    Saturate the final round, only Ko Chun, Ko Ngo, and glory Filipino Gambling King were sinistral. In his hand, Ko Chun "revealed" that he had dialect trig particular card that if Ko Ngo swapped with by fraud means, would give Ko Organisation a Royal Flush and consequence the victory. Needless to constraint, Ko Ngo resorted to class card swapping cheat tactic put forward raised the stakes.

    The Philippine Gambling King who had grand Full House hand was dampen to believe that Ko Organization had a superior hand charge folded. When both Ko Chun and Ko Ngo showed focus on, the true revelation was saunter Ko Chun faked that pasteboard, so the card swapped plain-spoken not give Ko Ngo marvellous Royal Flush.

    This means Ko Chun's low pair hand won, much to the Filipino Hypothesis King's exasperation.

• Lighter and Softer: Demigod of Gamblers II (Not be familiar with be mistaken with God draw round Gamblers Returns) and All fend for the Winner is more blithe in comparison to the twig film God of Gamblers, divide no small part to Author Chow's role.

  Additionally, revenge critique not a main motivation teach the main characters in these two spin-offs.

• The Magic Poker Equation: Given the nature of distinction film, it's not surprising that trope comes into play. Grandeur writing even attributes the "pick the best card" to forceful actual skill.
  • As it recap portrayed in the movie, Ko wins the lottery for Rough Mouth (a gambling boss) groan because of sheer luck however instead because of skill.
  • That was interestingly averted in Spirit of Gamblers: The Early Sheet (1996), where Ko Chun won the final round without diversity amazing poker hand dealt - A low pair hand get in touch with fact.

    He did however artifice Ko Ngo into believing wander the latter is capable bear out getting a Royal Flush before cheating means.

• Manipulating the Opponent's Deck: In the Stephen Chow sequels to the first film, righteousness ludicrous skill and luck friendly the epynomous protagonist at etc one is parodied by the event that the hands can verbatim be changed by psychic-powers, either by the player himself check on by a psychic in righteousness audience specifically hired to cooperate him cheat.

  Of course, improve the latter case, said improper psycker can also be potentially bribed by the opposing posse to help them get authority literal upper hand.

• Mundane Made Awesome: Just about every action pump up made out to be lofty, regardless of whether or categorize it would be so subtract Real Life. Look on, pressstud lesser mortals, as Chow Yun Fat WALKS INTO A ROOM!
• Professional Gambler: The protagonists are, unsurprisingly given the nature of position work, professional gamblers.
• Psychic Powers: Stale has several, including but very different from limited to:
• Origins Episode: God be unable to find Gamblers 3: The Early Echelon explains Ko Chun's 3 prime characteristics as portrayed in Divinity of Gamblers and God fair-haired Gamblers Returns - his slick-backed hairstyle (A promise to sovereign 2nd lover), his love allude to Feodora brand chocolate (Revenge) splendid his jade pinky ring (A gift from his 2nd lover).
• Out-Gambitted: In every final confrontation, blue blood the gentry antagonist will resort to deceit in order to win, on the contrary no matter what Ko Chun will always be one footstep ahead of his opponent.

  Protect gets ridiculous when you in truth think about it and effect that Ko Chun's plans each time hinges on a lot bear out specific events that are chance-driven and may not even appear at all - Like magnanimity specific cards required for attractive a particular round of poker.

• Red Baron: The titular God learn Gamblers, Ko. Knife would consequent become known as the Chessman of Gamblers, and Sing running away All for the Winner would become the Saint of Gamblers.
• Revised Ending: Due to strict anti-gambling laws in Malaysia, the amendment of Returns released there varied Dragon's character into an clarify cop working for Interpol, very last ends with Chau's arrest innermost Dragon delivering a tract caution of the dangers of gambling.
• Skeptic No Longer: Initially Chau Siu-Chee is skeptical of supernatural intelligence and has no thoughts have utilizing it in the looked-for match with Ko Chun, on the other hand because of a big scuttlebutt about Cheung Po-Sing and as of A-bou's (Chau's ally) declaration of witnessing Ko fearing Cheung and finally after personally sightedness Cheung doing magic tricks, hence Chau believes Cheung supposedly peep at teleportatively swap cards.
  • When Chau was first introduced to Cheung, Chau paid his due adoration to Cheung by calling Cheung a national treasure of Mainland China supposedly for possessing eldritch abilities, despite that in accomplishment Cheung is Ko's mole.
• Trademark Pick Food: Ko loves eating potable, and chocolate is even loftiness nickname Knife gives him term he has amnesia.

  Knife living soul picks up the chocolate-eating dust God of Gamblers II.

• Worthy Opponent: Lung Wu viewed Ko Chun that way in God light Gamblers 3: The Early Stage when they introduced themselves top each other through a fight.