Enter the Phoenix

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Introduction

Top Hong Kong triad leader Hung (Yuen Biao) is deathly ill, so he sends trusted lieutenant 8th Master (Law Kar-Ying) to go find his son Georgie (Daniel Wu), who's living in Thailand. Hung intends for Georgie to serve as Big Brother to the Triad, but there's just one wrinkle: Georgie is gay. Luckily 8th Master and son Kin (Chapman To) are well aware of this unpopular factoid—they offer to keep Georgie's secret safe in exchange for his travel to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, they get the wrong guy: they mistake Georgie's roommate Sam (Eason Chan) for Georgie, and offer him Big Brother status, which happens to be Sam's biggest dream EVER. To fulfill his adolescent desire to lord over triad types, Sam begs Georgie to pull an identity switch, which Georgie first objects to. However, when Hung kicks the bucket, Georgie pretends to be Sam and heads to Hong Kong to attend his father's funeral.

In Hong Kong, things get dicier. Apparently, there was some bad history between Hung and triad rival/brother Fai (Chan Wai-Man, the official "triad boss" actor). A long time ago, the two were at odds over the death of one of their comrades. The conflict was resolved, but not without a price: the dead man left a bitter young son, who's grown into the intense Chow (Stephen Fung), who's now Fai's right-hand enforcer. Chow apparently hasn't forgiven Hung for his father's demise, and is all-too-ready to transfer the blame onto Georgie—or Sam, who he thinks is Georgie. Meanwhile, everyone thinks Georgie is straight, a ruse which isn't that hard to keep up since Sam (who's playing Georgie) is straight. The sexual identity shenanigans get even weirder when Fai's daughter Julie (Karen Mok) enters the picture. Fai looks upon Julie as a potential marital offering to Georgie, who everyone believes to be straight, which he is, but 8th Master and Kin believe otherwise. Julie, however, has her eye on Sam, who openly says he's gay, except he's really Georgie.

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