Life Gamble

The story turns on a piece of jade. It is called the Harmony Jade. Four robbers steal it from a security house. That house is run by Master Nan. The robbers cannot agree how to split it. They decide to gamble for it instead. The game is run by the gambling master Mao Kaiyuan. Mao has a plan of his own and means to keep the jade. A housekeeper and a bodyguard stand beside him. Meanwhile a drawing reaches the blacksmith Qiu Ziyu, sent by the assassin Mo Junfeng, who wants a weapon forged. Qiu refuses at first. He is drawn in once the question becomes getting the stolen jade back, and everyone ends up deceiving somebody else. Alexander Fu Sheng, Phillip Kwok and Lo Meng appear in the hundred minute film, a Hong Kong production Chang Cheh finished in 1978.