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Simon Tam, "The Sting", has learnt some Chinese traditional skill from his master. To avoid misfortunes he has not accepted any business for 5 years. Now Simon is being employed to protect an accountant Law, but Law dies mysteriously. Law's legacy, 300 million dollars, which attracts the attention of a smuggling syndicate, is missing. This leads to a 300 million dollar big chase which Simon is involved inside.
Status
Released
Original Language
CN

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.