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Paper Marriage is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Cheung with Sammo Hung
Paper Marriage (1988)
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Add to a movie listPaper Marriage (Chinese: Gwoh Bo San Neung) is a 1988 Hong Kong film directed by Alfred Cheung and starring Sammo Hung and Maggie Cheung.
Synopsis
Set in Canada, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer named Bo Chin (Sammo Hung) accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman named Jade Lee (Maggie Cheung) so she can get Canadian citizenship. They realize too late that they have been set up in a complicated plan to cheat them out of the woman's money. Their adventures begin when Bo is forced back into the ring and Maggie tries her hand at mud-wrestling!Actors
Sammo Hung
(Chien Pao)
Maggie Cheung
(Jade Li)
Alfred Cheung
(Peter)
Dick Wei
(White Suit kicker)
Billy Chow
(Big Bear, Thai boxer)
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