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Laughing Times International Poster

Title: Laughing Times

Star: Dean Shek, Wong Wei, Wu Ma
Director: John Woo
Description: This is an original international sales poster printed for the film.
Publishing year of product: 1980

Condition : Mint (never displayed)

Size: 26X40 inches

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Overview

Before the young John Woo made his name with high octane gangster gunplay actioners like ‘A Better Tomorrow’ and ‘The Killer’, he made his cinematic love letter to Charlie Chaplin, ‘Laughing Times’. The film stars the late Dean Shek as a Chinese version of Chaplin’s Little Tramp character. The images and story line are so close to Chaplin’s that the comic’s estate threatened legal action, meaning that ‘Laughing Times’ has been little seen in recent years.

Reel East celebrate this lost comic classic of Hong Kong cinema with this artwork poster from the venerable Yuen Tai-yung: