The House of 72 Tenants

Sep 21, 1973

1h 38m

★ 6.3

Overview

Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

TVB

Shaw Brothers

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Cast

Fat Chai

Elliot Ngok Wah

Chow Bing-ken

Tin Ching

Ah Heung

Ching Li

Landlady Pak Ku

Hu Chin

Shanghai Po

Lydia Shum Tin-Ha

Thief in the market

Chor Yuen

Ah Fook

Sau Sun Ho

Police Constable 369

Lau Yat-Fan

Brother Fung

Ku Feng

Shanghai man

Cheng Kang-Yeh

Wo Kee

Lee Sau-Kei

Doctor Kim

Ching Miao

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