1972 · wuxia · shaw-brothers · gambling
The Casino
Directed by Chang Tseng-Chai1h 17m1972
A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their bliss is interrupted when Luo agrees to help old friend Lun Liu defeat crooked gambler Hao Lishan, who uses rigged dice.
Our read: The Casino (1972) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded wuxia · shaw-brothers · gambling entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured wuxia / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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