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      Pedicab Driver

      1989 1h 35m Action List
      Reviews 94% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Two men find trouble after one falls in love with a bun maker and the other with a woman he doesn't know is a prostitute. Read More Read Less

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      Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Nov 9, 2005 Full Review Andy Klein New Times Pedicab Driver doesn't handle its transitions from comedy to melodrama as smoothly as, say, Hung's Heart of Dragon (1985), but it is still, in nearly every respect, one of his best. Jul 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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      s r An unusual blend of comedy, romance, martial arts and a look at the pedicab industry. Sammo is something special. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Quite good action and also some romance in the movie. The ending is another of those typical abrupt type. Macau 1954, Sammo Hung lead his group of pedicab drivers (Max Mok, Lowell Lo, Mang Hoi) to negotiate with coolies. They all end upfighting and there's one scene 2 guys use the fluorescent light as light sabre. The old baker Sun Yueh is aiming Nina Li. Other girls play a prank on Sammo and he thought Nina is culprit. Sun defend her and Maria Cordero come to salvage the situation. Max Mok accidentally knock Fennie Yuen and likes her. She go temple and is told she will be lucky in love. Max buy her a new pair of shoe as compensate. John Shum is a gangster. Dick Wei bring his girlfriend who is a prostitute away. He hunt them, Billy Chow fight Dick and he died. John saw Nina and wanna touch her. Sammo save her. They chase them with car and they crash into a gambling den. Her money drop on the floor and the thugs don't let her take. The den boss Lau Kar-Leung fight Sammo and he lose. Lau let them go because he admire his kung fu and even give him some money. Nina go to Sammo room to rub ointment on his bruises. Sun comes in and she hide in his blanket. Sun ask Sammo not to fight over Nina with him and keep insulting him. Sammo lift up the blanket and Sun saw Nina. They are together. Max and Fennie also together. The buddies want the duo to intro their girlfriend. Lowell go to brothel and Fennie is a prostitute. When they meet, Lowell reveal out. Max is very angry and sad. Nina says maybe she is force to do so. Max find her but she know she's not worthy. The bros carry Max to her and bluff he suicide for her. They ask her if he is alive, will she marry him. She say she will and Max stop acting. They sell their pedicab to give Fennie settle her debt with John. He is not happy his whore is freed. Max and Fennie get married. The baddies crash the house. Lowell manage to escape. Sammo bought a jade bracelet for Nina and Lowell came to tell him. Mang wife tells him not to interfere but he couldn't and they were hurt. Max and Fennie is badly hurt and died. Mang join Sammo to avenge. His wife tell Mang not to worry. Sammo fight many thugs and nearly defeated by Billy. Mang is hold hostage. John father beat the thug and Mang push him down. John try to kill his own father and he got push down. Sammo kill John. Nina, Lowell and Sun come to help but all is over. The jade bracelet is broken to bits. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review sarfaraz a Pedicab Driver directed and c-starring Sammo Hung, Nina Li Chi and Eric Tsang in cameo role Sammo Hung is a pedicab driver who sleeps at a baker shop where he has fallen in love with charming dough kneading Nina Li - he has circle of loyal friends who are all happy-go-lucky souls - one of his young pedicab drivers falls in love with charming girl, it turns out she is actually sleeping with people to pay off her loans - until one of her client is friends of her lover - Sammo and entire gang sell some of their pedicabs to get her released from chains of loans and get them married - howeer, in the nick of time the owner of brothel sends his goons to terminate the two - Filled with good fight scenes, and melting scenes; it's plot is solid enough to raise your curiosity till the very end. Few guffaws with romance wars between Sammo and old baker! Film maintains the rhythm of its story! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review dave j Wednesday, March 7, 2012 (1989) Pedicab Driver (In Chinese with English subtitles) ACTION/ COMEDY Like most action vehicles made in Hong Kong during the 80's and 90's, the story and comedy routines only serve only as a backdrop to showcase Sammo Hung Kam Bo's hard hitting martial art skills which involves a Chinese kickboxing martial artist Billy Kwan playing a karate Japanese military soldier! In terms of action, this is very good but not Sammo's best! 3 out of 4 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This one had a reputation as Sammo Hung's best film and I'd been wanting to see it for about ten years. Finally got around to it, due mainly to its other reputation for being so hard to find. It lived up to the hype though and has some of the absolute best action and comedy from Hong Kong in the 80s. The legendary Lau Kar-leung has maybe the best cameo I've ever seen in an HK film as the boss of a gambling house who picks a fight with Sammo about 30 minutes in. The movie is of course quite uneven in its transition from comedy to drama, though it's quite typical of the style for such films and I would still name drop this as one of the best examples of an HK action-comedy I've ever seen. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member One of Sammo Hung's best movies and considered by many to be his masterpiece, it starts out as a comedy, moves into romance before entering heroic bloodshed territory by the time the end credits roll. The plot could have been made tighter but it doesn't matter when you've got a good balance of humour and drama including a funny nod to Star Wars when Sammo has a flourescent light tube fight. However, the mood changes dramatically to the dark side in the 2nd half as Sammo is out for revenge when his friend and his new bride are slaughtered. The fight choreography throughout the movie are outstanding. Even though Sammo may never leave the shadow of his countryman Jackie Chan, he is definitely just as inventive and nimble for a large man in his fights. The fast and furious stick fight between Sammo and Lau Kar Leung is a model of dazzling choreography and sharp, superb direction, and easily one of the best ever of its type. A seemless and utterly compelling blend of first-class martial arts comedy and truly breathtaking violence, "Pedicab Driver" showcases the master of Hong Kong action at his awesome, bloody best. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Two men find trouble after one falls in love with a bun maker and the other with a woman he doesn't know is a prostitute.
      Director
      Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
      Screenwriter
      Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      Chinese
      Runtime
      1h 35m