Casino Raiders II
Casino Raiders II is a 1991 Hong Kong action drama film directed by Johnnie To and starring Andy Lau, Dave Wong, Jacklyn Wu and Monica Chan. Despite the title, the film is the third installment in the "Casino Raiders" film series, following "Casino Raiders" (1989) and "No Risk, No Gain" (1990). The films in the series are unrelated in plot and merely share the same principal actor of Lau. Plot. Chicken Feet, Kit and James were Uncle Fan's apprentices in the past. When Uncle Fan brought them to Osaka to compete with Taro Yamamoto, James colluded  Yamamoto and betrayed Fan, but still lost to Kit. James kills Yamamoto after the latter berates him. Chicken Feet arrives to rescue Fan, who is crippled after leaping off a high platform to escape from James while Kit was beaten by James's henchmen and framed for murdering Yamamoto, leading him imprisoned. Afterwards, James overtook Fan's casino ship so he and Chicken Feet operate small gambling boat. Chicken Feet works hard to prepare for the upcoming Asia Gambling Tournament but his skills are not yet up to par. James needs a jade tablet belonging to the God of Gamblers  to win in the Asia Gambling Tournament harrses Fan, who possesses the jade. Fan tricks Chicken Feet into delivering a briefcase to an old friend in order to steer him from danger and meets with James. When Fan refuses to hand out the jade tablet, James pulls out his gun and Fan's underling, Kei attempts to protect him but was killed by James's top henchman, Pau. Admist the chaos, Fan throws himself into the ocean and commits suicide. Chicken Feet's girlfriend, Mui realizes the briefcase contains two chunks of wood so they rush back to their boat  and finds Fan's dead body. Kit is released from prison and finds out Fan's death from the newspaper on his flight back to Hong Kong. Kit arrives at Fan's funeral informing Chicken Feet he intends to quit gambling for good. Kit's girlfriend also arrives to inform him that Fan sent her a telegraph with something to hand him. As Kit leaves the funeral home, he is approached by Mr. Yeung, who is betting on James to win the Asia Gambling Tournament, and offers Kit US$10 million to lose on purpose, but he assures Yeung he  will not be participating. Kit then picks up his daughter, Yan-yan, from his cousin, who is traumatized by the abuse from his cousin's wife, but Kit manages to heal his daughter from the trauma as he cares for her. Kit later works as a cocktail bartender at his friend, King Kong's bar but James orders Pau to trash the bar and beat up King Kong as well as kidnapping Yan-yan. Chicken Feet barges into James's office and beats up his henchmen in an attempt to rescue Yan-yan. James challenges Chicken Feet to a blackjack  match and would allow him to leave with Yan-yan if he wins but he must strip down to his underwear if he loses. Chicken Feet loses and Kit arrives, so James demands Kit to cut off his own hand if he wants his daughter back to which Kit complies. Later, Chicken Feet, Kit and Mui close their gambling boat and open a fast food restaurant but Chicken Feet is not contempt and becomes agitated when he encounters entitled customers, which upsets Mui. Mui confides with Kit's girlfriend to find the item Fan sent her through telegraphs in order  to help Chicken Feet. Chicken Feet notices James's henchmen tailing Mui and Kit's girlfriend so he follows them as well, where they arrive at a cemetery and discovers 873154 is the number of a tombstone where Fan hid the jade tablet along with a letter inside a case. Chicken Feet tells Mui and Kit's girlfriend to leave with the jade tablet while he takes the case and part ways in order to fool James. However, Mui tells Kit's girlfriend to leave with the jade as she wants to help Chicken Feet. When Chicken Feet is stopped  by Pau and his henchmen, Mui arrives with Kit's girlfriend's car and runs over Pau, killing him while Chicken Feet snatched one of the henchmen's gun and kills several of the henchmen before Mui crashes into the water, injuring her leg. As James and more henchmen arrives, Mui knocks Chicken Feet unconscious with a boat paddle when he turns around and puts him on a boat to sail away. However, Mui is captured and tortured by James. Chicken Feet wakes up and sees this so he crashes into James's henchman. While Chicken Feet fights off the  henchmen, James hits his eyes with fluorescent lamp, which blinds him, while Mui dies from her injuries. Kit reads a letter Fan wrote to him stating he has left US$20 million for him to participate in the Asia Gambling Tournament to seek revenge and use the jade tablet if necessary, but Kit throws it into the water. Chicken Feet and Kit both enter the Asia Gambling Tournament and end up in the finals along with James and a fourth competitor. Kit feigns his previous agreement with Yeung and loses, leaving Chicken Feet and James in the final battle. Chicken  Feet hand has an A spades, 3 spades, 4 spades, 5 spades and a 2 spades covered, while James has a J clubs, J diamonds, Q diamond, Q hearts and a  Q spades covered. Chicken Feet calls show hand, as well as putting the jade tablet and his own life at stake to bet with James's life. Feeling intimidated, James quits the round and Chicken Feet wins the tournament before revealing to James he used a fake jade to fool him. Kit then feigns reconciling with James in front of Yeung while Yeung's rival, Mr. Chung, reveals to  him that James bet US$5 million for himself to lose and Yeung's henchmen kill James as he exits the tournament. Chicken Feet temporary leaves Hong Kong to avoid danger from those who lost money from his win and right after sending him off, Kit was shot by Yeung's assassins. Box office. The film grossed HK$26,889,659 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 13 June to 11 July 1991 in Hong Kong.