{"id":43902,"date":"2026-04-12T16:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43902"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:43:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:43:34","slug":"3-hong-kong-comedy-classics-from-the-1970s-and-80s-that-became-local-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43902","title":{"rendered":"3 Hong Kong comedy classics from the 1970s and 80s that became local favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/09\/2c92318d-710f-4d73-bfe6-55416b470c38_7c2efeea.jpg?itok=a_nRSPCh&amp;v=1775707004\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kung fu and action comedies dominated Hong Kong\u2019s comedy genre in the late 1970s and 80s, but the city\u2019s film industry was also still making mainstream comedies at the time \u2013 and audiences loved them.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">We take a deep dive into three crowd favourites.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">Itchy Fingers (1979)<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hugely popular upon its release, this odd-couple comedy might feel a bit tame for modern viewers.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">But director <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Leong Po-chih<\/span>, a notable member of the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Hong Kong New Wave<\/span>, was a consummate craftsman. He delivers a well-paced romp that trades action and slapstick for a well-structured script, solid characterisations and some carefully designed physical gags.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis comedy is slick and sparkles with smoothness,\u201d wrote critic Mel Tobias when the film was released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3349459\/3-hong-kong-comedy-classics-1970s-and-80s-became-local-favourites?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kung fu and action comedies dominated Hong Kong\u2019s comedy genre in the late 1970s and 80s, but the city\u2019s film industry was also still making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[19104,13747,8573,2689,6409,3569,5231,1034],"class_list":["post-43902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-1970s","tag-80s","tag-classics","tag-comedy","tag-favourites","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-local","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}