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    All for the Winner (Chinese: 賭聖 Literal translation: Gambling Saint) is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy directed by Jeff Lau and Corey Yuen.

    This is the movie that launched Stephen Chow to stardom. It is a parody of the original Dou San or God of Gamblers movie which starred Chow Yun-Fat in 1989.





        All for the Winner
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    Plot
    Sing (Steven Chow) is a mainland China country boy who arrives in Hong Kong to visit his Uncle "Blackie Tat" (Ng Man-Tat). When Sing stays with his uncle and his friends in their apartment, Blackie soon learns of Sing's supernatural ability to see through objects and, later on, his ability to change playing cards by rubbing them. He takes advantage of this and turns Sing into the Dou Seng or the "Saint of Gamblers". After getting into a fight with several alleyway gamblers he meets the lovely Yee-Mong (lit. trans: Beautiful Dream, but euphemistically as wet dream), a henchman for the "King of Gamblers", and becomes infatuated with her. Sing quickly becomes a rival to the King and must win his way through a world competition to prove his skill.

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    Sequels
    While All For The Winner itself was initially a parody of God of Gamblers, it was such a well-received film that it spawned many sequels of its own. The story was also officially tied into the God of Gamblers continuity as of God of Gamblers II (it should be noted that although God of Gamblers II was as much of a sequel to All For The Winner as it was to the original God of Gamblers film, there is another separate movie titled God of Gambler 2 that is billed as the one "true" direct sequel to the God of Gamblers franchise).


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    Awards
    10th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards
     


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