The Private Eyes | 半斤八兩
The Private Eyes半斤八兩
Overview
The film revolves around the exploits of a detective agency in Hong Kong called Mannix Private Detective Agency. It is headed by private detective Wong Yeuk Sze (Michael Hui) with his emotionally drained assistant Puffy (Ricky Hui). Meanwhile, Lee Kwok Kit (Samuel Hui), a kung fu expert, who works at a Vitasoy plant factory and spends most of the time doing kung fu tricks to impress a girl, ultimately loses his job. Seeking to find another line of work, Lee attempts to joins Wong's detective agency. Despite Lee's impression with his kung fu talent which involves his snatching trick, Wong was not impressed. Then, as it appears that Lee would not get the job, Wong discovers that his wallet was missing and was presumed stolen by one bystander who bumped into them. Lee intercepts him and recovers the wallet, thus impressed Wong to hire him for the job.
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Cast
Michael Hui
Sam Hui Koon-Kit
Ricky Hui
Angie Chiu
Richard Ng
Lo Wai-Chi
Chu Mu
Lily Leung Shun-Yin
Lai Siu-Fong
Hsiao Yin-Fang
Sek Kin
Melvin Wong Gam-Sam
Mars
Ko Hung
Jimmy Wang Yu
Crew
Michael Hui
Michael Hui
Raymond Chow Man-Wai
Sammo Hung
Cheung Yiu-Cho