Lawyer Lawyer

Lawyer Lawyer
算死草
Directed by Joe Ma
Produced by Joe Ma
Written by Joe Ma
Wong Ho-Wa
Starring Stephen Chow
Eric Kot
Karen Mok
Chingmy Yau
Music by Lincoln Lo
Cinematography Cheung Man-Po
Edited by Cheung Ka-Fai
Kong Chi-Leung
Distributed by Cameron Entertainment
Release dates
 1997
Running time
 85 min
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese

Lawyer Lawyer (Cantonese 算死草, Jyutping syun3 sei2 cou2, literally "compute death weed") is a 1997 Hong Kong comedy film produced, directed and co-written by Joe Ma.

Plot

Stephen Chow is Chan Mong-Gut, a famous Chinese lawyer, who must defend his apprentice Foon, who got framed for murder, in court.

Stephen Chow stars as Chan Mong-Gut, a famous Chinese lawyer who was killed in the Qing dynasty. He must defend his apprentice, Foon, who has been framed for murder in Hong Kong. Being the third worst lawyer in China, he challenges the British legal system with no evidence on hand and manages to identify the killer in a hilarious way.

1997

The film was released during the same year as the Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. As the film deals specifically with the issue of justice, it can be interpreted as responding to the fears of the PRC takeover and to the general uncertainty of what that meant to the people of Hong Kong, as long as you ignore the content of the movie itself, which implicates the UK as the source of injustice. The film promotes a normative vision of justice that can prevail over any tyranny, suggesting that knowledge of law, and the freedom to express it, is more important than brute strength (as embodied by the trials and tribulations of Chang Mong-Gut over countless foes).

Cast

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