1989 · action · comedy · drama
Pedicab Driver
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo1h 35m1989
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
Our read: Pedicab Driver (1989) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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