The Casino (film)

The Casino (Chinese: 吉祥赌坊; Jixiang Dufang) is a 1972 Hong Kong drama Shaw Brothers Studio film directed by Cheung Chang Chak.

Overview
The film's alternative titles in Hong Kong are Jixiang dufang and Gat cheung do fong. The Casino is a drama martial arts film with characters in a gambling environment. The film is set "in North China soon after the 1911 Revolution". It is one of the three gambling films Chang Tseng-Chai, a Taiwanese director, made for the Hong Kong production company Shaw Brothers Studio. The film has been considered the first notable production in Hong Kong on the topic.

Plot
A handsome stranger, Luo, visits a casino in Northern China. A gambler agrees to help an old friend defeat a crooked gambler that uses rigged dice.

Cast

 * Lily Ho - Ms Cui
 * Yueh Hua - Luo Tianguang
 * Chin Feng - Master Lun Liu
 * Wu Ma - Xiao Wang

Release
On March 30, 1972, the film was released in Hong Kong.

Home media
A DVD version was released in 2004.