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| The Private Eyes | |
|---|---|
| Traditional | 半斤八兩 |
| Simplified | 半斤八两 |
| Mandarin | Bàn Jīn Bā Liǎng |
| Cantonese | Bun Gan Baat Leong |
| Directed by | Michael Hui |
| Written by | Michael Hui |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow |
| Starring | Michael Hui Samuel Hui Ricky Hui |
| Cinematography | Cheung Yiu-cho |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung |
| Music by | Samuel Hui The Lotus |
| Production companies | Golden Harvest Hui’s Film Production |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
| Release date | 16 December 1976 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | US$16.7 million (Asia) |
The Private Eyes is a 1976 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring his brothers Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui as well as Shih Kien and Richard Ng in his second film role. John Woo was the production designer and also co-director, though he was uncredited. Sammo Hung served as the film’s action director and Jackie Chan was also a stuntman. This is the third film of the Hui Brothers and it is the first film that established the Hui Brothers’ comedies internationally. It became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong at the time.
Box office
The film grossed HK$8,531,700 at the Hong Kong box office and became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong. Its Hong Kong gross was equivalent to US$1.7 million. The film went on to gross US$5 million in Southeast Asia and US$10 million in Japan, for a total gross of US$16.7 million in Asia.
Album
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| The Private Eyes 半斤八兩 | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by Samuel Hui | |
| Released | 23 December 1976 |
| Genre | Cantopop |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Label | PolyGram |
| Samuel Hui chronology | |
| The Last Message 天才與白痴 (1975)The Private Eyes 半斤八兩 (1976)Fortune God Comes 財神到 (1978) |
The Private Eyes is Hong Kong singer and the film’s costar Samuel Hui‘s third Cantopop album. The title song is the film’s theme song with the same name, which was a hit, using especially colloquial street Cantonese in the lyrics which was a breakthrough at that time. The use of street Cantonese was justified as the film, which depicted the working class, struck a chord with Hong Kong people after its release.
Track listing
- “半斤八兩”
- “浪子心聲”
- “打雀英雄傳”
- “梨渦淺笑”
- “大家跟住唱”
- “有酒今朝醉”
- “知音夢裡尋”
- “鬼馬大家樂”
- “夜半輕私語”
- “斷腸夢”
- “追求三部曲”
- “流水恨”
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Remake
The 1990 film, Front Page (新半斤八兩), reunites the trio of the Hui Brothers, which is also the last film the three appeared together. This time, the story revolves around the exploits of a tabloid magazine company. Like The Private Eyes, their exploits throughout the film resulted in investigation on celebrity scandals and their unfortunate situation involving the trio and a group of bank robbers.
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