The Eighth Happiness

The Eighth Happiness
Film poster
Traditional	八星報喜
Simplified	八星报喜
Mandarin	Bā Xīng Bào Xǐ
Cantonese	Baat3 Sing1 Bou3 Hei2
Directed by	Johnnie To
Produced by	Raymond Wong
Written by	Philip Cheng Raymond Wong
Starring	Chow Yun-fat Raymond Wong Jacky Cheung Carol Cheng Cherie Chung Fung Bo Bo Fennie Yuen
Music by	Tony Lo
Cinematography	Joe Chan Paul Chan
Edited by	David Wu
Production company	Cinema City & Films Co.
Distributed by	Cinema City & Films Co.
Release dates	11 February 1988
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$37,090,776

The Eighth Happiness (八星報喜) is a 1988 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Johnnie To and starring an ensemble cast of Chow Yun-fat, Raymond Wong, Jacky Cheung, Carol Cheng, Cherie Chung, Fung Bo Bo and Fennie Yuen.

Cast

• Chow Yun-fat as 'Handsome' Fong Kim-long
• Raymond Wong as Fong Kim-fai
• Jacky Cheung as Fong Kim-sang
• Carol Cheng as DoDo
• Fennie Yuen as Ying-ying
• Cherie Chung as Beautiful
• Michael Chow as Ying-ying's boyfriend
• Lawrence Cheng as Beautiful's boyfriend
• Charlie Cho as DoDo's prospective suitor
• Fung Bo Bo -as Ng Fan-fong
• Teddy Robin as Fan-fong's husband (cameo)
• Ringo Lam as Audience member (cameo)
• Karl Maka as Audience member (cameo)
• John Shum as Audience member (cameo)
• Wong Kwan-yuen as Ming-,ing
• Cheng Mang-ha as Old woman driver

Box office

The film grossed HK$37,090,776 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 11 February to 30 March 1988 and was the top-grossing film of 1988 in Hong Kong.^[1]

References

1. "‘Go Johnnie To’ series will show movies of Hong Kong director".

External links

• The Eighth Happiness at the Internet Movie Database
• The Eighth Happiness at Rotten Tomatoes
• HK cinemagic entry
• loveHKfilm entry