Fai, a talented actor who has won the Best New Artist of the Hong Kong Film Awards and always plays leading roles in television, is an arrogant guy who does not cherish the opportunities given to him. As he keeps on criticizing his co-workers, his career and popularity gradually deteriorates. He is not offered leading roles anymore and has to take the parts of villains and rapists. Finally, he has even lost his job at the TV station. Fai becomes extremely depressed, but a twist of fate makes him become an agent for extras. As Fai gives pointers to a young girl named Fei, who truly loves acting, he regains his own enthusiasm towards acting and life.

This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chinese New Year's eve. We are introduced to thirteen "Big Rich" people, learn of their particular dispositions and dilemmas, are witness to the former either getting changed or developed and see the latter (re)solved. Teresa Mo as the daughter just returned from studying in France; Leslie Cheung as the friend who came in tow; Tony Leung Kar Fai as the cartoonist son who can only speak normally when he is anxious; Anita Yuen as the woman who Tony Leung's character falls in love with; Carol "Do Do" Cheng as her flat-chested, disciplinary-cum-art teacher sister; Raymond Wong as the eldest son who cannot handle alcohol well; Petrina Fung Bo Bo as his estranged wife; Sean Lau as the marriage-minded cousin; and Kwan Tak Hing as the eccentric-but-definitely-not-senile grandfather.

1989 film by Tsui Hark

Based on parts of the classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (aka Outlaws of the Marsh).

2002 Hong Kong film directed by Samson Chiu

六年前，梁森（梁家辉 饰）告别心伤爱人梅伊（梅艳芳 饰），来到后方参加地下党，梅则按照吴先生（曾江 饰）的安排成为夜总会歌女。 1941年，太平洋战争爆发，世界局势动荡不安。梁森和革命同志重返上海公共租界，当晚便目睹五个日本和尚惨遭杀害的景象，而幕后指使者竟是日本人白川（国村隼 饰）。梁尾随白川来至夜总会，两人发生搏斗，白川被杀，梁也多处负伤。养伤之际，梁森重逢爱人梅伊，旧情不断，难以割舍。 白川之死激化租界内的矛盾，76局特务头子铁泽民（徐少强 饰）对地下党进行无情捕杀……

1991 film by Tsui Hark, Clifton Ko, Alfred Cheung, Joe Cheung

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.