Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon (1990) on Netflix
Fatty and Baldy are undercover detectives working a Triad drug syndicate. A jewelry robbery leads them to Lai, a woman tied to the gang, and to her boss, Tak.
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Plot summary
A jewelry robbery sets the detectives Fatty and Baldy on the trail of Lai, a woman connected to a Triad gang, and a search of her house ends in a brawl that they escape by posing as robbers and stealing her car. The gang's leader, Wing, has his own trouble with Johnny, a henchman who has leaked his secrets. Lai arranges a meeting at an abandoned building, and the chase of her boss, Tak, that follows leaves a senior officer's wedding in ruins. Fatty and Baldy are ordered out of Hong Kong to let things settle, and they head for Singapore.
Cast
- Yip Seung-Waas Ted's Brother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon (1990)
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- For a villain meant as a tribute to Game of Death, Mark Houghton was sent to find a black businessman to play it. After offending several businessmen, he told director Lau Kar-wing he had found none, so Kar-wing played the main bad guy himself.
- Karl Maka, after watching the film, told director Lau Kar-wing in a DVD interview that it lacked balance between its comedy and its action. It had too much action and not enough comedy at first, so the film was changed to even them out.
- Sammo Hung had impersonated Bruce Lee in two earlier films, Enter the Fat Dragon and Millionaire's Express with Cynthia Rothrock; Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon is the final film in which he carried those early Lee references into his work.
