The Happy Trio

(1975)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1975

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: Hong Kong

Director: John Law Ma

Cast: 李菁, Yau Fung, Wang Sha, Tang Ching, Ku Chiu-Chin, 梁舜燕, 顧嘉煇, 楊棋, 林源, Hui Ying-Sau

Plot

Following the lives of three downtrodden but resilient outcasts, John Lo Mar's gritty social drama paints a sense of realism rarely seen in Hon Kong movies. Li Ching - the best actress of her era - play Ah Chiao is a girl from a rural village stranded in the city, who befriends a kind-hearted transient and a retired actor. They are poor, but they are happy. Although her fortune changes for the better when she becomes a singer, she ultimately learns money can't buy happiness.