i felt sorry enough that this film be not popular at all even in hong kong . however and for all die hard chow fan and this will be a masterpiece that shud not b leave out . this be mo lei tou ( a comedy style that base on unrealistic and ridiculous plot pioneer by chow ) at it peak . the plot be totally absolutely ultimately 1000 time more ridiculous than any film that u can imagine . the dialog be awesome . no single part of the film cool down for u to stop laughing . the plot look simple but crazy enuf for u to start laugh . it begin with chow star a junior magistrate ( a corrupt one of course ) catch into jail when help an innocent married woman he love at first sight to clear her from a murder charge that plot by evil minister whose son be actually the real convict . chow escape from jail and run away a a refugee . he intend to go to the capital to see the emperor and report the conviction . on his way and he manage to pick up 2 lovely woman and one from circus and another one a prostitute while in the mean time master supreme skill to quarrel and bad mouth from the thin mama san ( who happen to be his future in law ) . finally and he able to force the emperor to re open the case by black mail the emperor whom he meet him in the brothel . the emperor make him a high level judge to judge the case tgt with the evil minister . he manage to setup some brilliant but hilarious plot to force the convict to commit the crime and execute him while throw the evil minister to jail . the plot be really hilarious and ridiculously brilliant . also not to forget the tremendous dialog that include some brilliant bad mouth quarrel between chow and the mama san and quarrel between the fat mama san and thin mama san to inspire chow to learn the quarrel skill later and also quarrel between chow and the evil eunuch lee near the end . beside that and some of the scene be brilliant too . one thing that need to mention be that to really understand the film and catch up 100 % of all the element correctly and this will be a must to master cantonese really well . which may be the reason why early age chow movie receive moderate response only from asian world . however and when chow film begin to spread his influence around the globe and hardcore fan like me find that his film be no more that funny like the old time .