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Plot summary
Big was a Buddhist monk. He gave up the monastery when he understood that he could see people's past lives and the karma that follows from them, and he now earns a living as a bodybuilder in a strip bar. Lee Fung-yee is a CID officer working undercover, and her operation busts his act. As he tries to get away from her, he becomes caught up in a police hunt for a murderer. Seeing that Lee is kind-hearted, Big agrees to help her with a homicide investigation, and he makes her a promise: once the case is closed, he will leave. Lee also carries a karma of her own, one that dooms her to an unnatural death, and the two decide to oppose cause and consequence.
Cast
- Hou Lian-Shengas Master Wen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Running on Karma (2003)
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- Andy Lau wears a prosthetic muscle suit as the bodybuilding ex-monk Big in Running on Karma, the second time he wore such a suit for a film after the fat suit of Love on a Diet.
- The version of Running on Karma released in mainland China was cut to meet that territory's requirements for release.
- Running on Karma won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Andy Lau at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards, Lau's second Best Actor win there after Running Out of Time in 2000.
