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Set in Shanghai in the 1940's, a man named Sing inadvertantly starts a rivalry between the evil Axe Gang and the tough inhabitants of a run down apartment complex.
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Set in 1930s Hong Kong, Stephen Chow is a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow - who wrote, produced and directed - doesn't step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabers from lyre strings; and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named the Beast (Lung) catches bullets in his fingers.
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