10 Asian movies about winning the lottery and why the jackpot is never enough
Winning the lottery can change your life forever, for good or bad. These 10 films from across Asia explore luck, wealth and greed
Yung’s sprawling festive folly follows a tried-and-tested formula that resonates across Asia, where the Mark Six and other lotteries serve as symbols of both salvation and greed, and provide the catalyst for all manner of capers and high jinks.
In the spirit of the season, here are 10 other films from around the region in which characters learn that while money can buy a ticket, the cost of a happy life is something even a lottery win cannot guarantee.
1. From Riches to Rags (1980)
Ricky Hui Koon-ying and Johnny Koo Kwok-wah play a pair of hapless employees at a bottling factory whose lives are transformed after winning the lottery. The luck of Hui’s character is short-lived, however, when he is mistakenly diagnosed with terminal cancer; in a moment of madness, he hires a hitman to do himself in.