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TIME YOU NEED A FRIEND (1984)
 

Kind of a remake of "The Sunshine Boys," but shunned by Woo. Two old comics are reunited for a charity event, but still strongly dislike each other. John Woo don't talk about this one. NEVER. The first comedy out of two which he made in Taiwan.

 

Genre: Comedy  
Studio:   
Cinema City (H.K.)/ Long Shong (Taiwan)
Running time:
98 min
Cast:
Sun Yueh ... Ku Jen
David Tao Ta-wei ... Shen Pin
Liu Jui-Chi ... Liu Yu-nan
Wu Shao-kang ... Peter
Liu Meng-yen ... Nancy Huang
Hsiao Yu-chi ... Hsiao-lan
Chiang Hsia ... Manager Liang
Josephine Sui
Ricky Hui

 

Written:    
John Woo
Raymond Wong 
Lin Neng-kuan
Directed:    
John Woo 
Photography (scope): 

Editor:
 

Music:
 

Art Director:
 

Producers: 
Karl Maka 
Dean Shek 
Wang Ying-shiang




Hong Kong release (1984)
Standard Mandarin Romanization Title: 
Xiao Jiang
Standard Cantonese Romanization Title: 
?
literal translation of Chinese title: 
The Comics
Official English Title:
 
The Time You Need a Friend 
Alternate English Title:
 
A Friend in Need



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