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  1. Hui (Michael Hui) is the struggling proprietor of a Cantonese BBQ roast duck restaurant in Hong Kong. At the beginning of the film, Hui is visited by a health inspector, who finds a cockroach in his soup and other unsanitary conditions, and threatens to sue the restaurant.

  2. With Hongkongers these days asserting local identity and cultural heritage more than ever before, Chicken and Duck Talk plays like the movement’s delightful pop-cult precursor. Under the guiding hand of Hui and writer-director Clifton Ko, the duck restaurant is a greasy microcosm of Hong Kong business practices in need of sprucing up.

  3. Nov 25, 2005 · Chicken And Duck Talk is justly famous in the history of Hong Kong films. It’s well-made, it was a fresh look at ordinary urban Hong Kongers, and it’s funny. Still. Despite some of the background looking a tad dated, the message and the comedy still shine. Michael Hui, the creative talent behind this and other films, gives us a lot to think ...

  4. When Cantonese speakers see a conversation going round and round in circles, or the participants talking over each other, it is described as “chicken talking to duck” (gai 1 tung 4 aap 3 gong 2 雞同鴨講), pretty much like a round of the Clinton-Trump presidential debates.

  5. Chicken and Duck Talk has aged remarkably well. A product of the wild and wooly eighties brand of Hong Kong comedy, the film has sloppy production values, generous overacting and an egregious synth score.

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    • Ronny Yu Yan-Tai
    • Clifton Ko Chi-Sum
    • 1988
  6. The film was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film released in 1988. Hui's screenplay and performance won him several awards, including a special award given by the American Film Institute in 1989. Chicken and Duck Talk is a 1988 comedy film starring and co-written by Michael Hui.

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  8. Aug 4, 2019 · A Hong Kong classic loved by locals, and deserves to be loved by all. Watch this review of Chicken and Duck Talk and join the comments below with your though...

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