Working Class (film)
Working Class (Chinese: 打工皇帝; pinyin: Da gung wong dai) is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Tsui Hark.Reviewer Andrew Saroch of fareastfilms.com gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 stars, writing, "Although it doesn't rank as top notch Hui or Hark, there is still much to keep the viewer absorbed here.There's some very well handled comic scenarios that manage to move from cliché to humour; foremost among these is the romance between Samuel Hui and Joey Wong which is oft-seen, but given a fresh treatment here.It's not the commodification or assimilation of leftist ideals into a corporate mainstream, but the repackaging of them as a shiny, goofy treat, a cookie full of arsenic for the exploitative middle managers of the world.You can see it in something like his early slapstick comedy Working Class, a feel-good flick about workers changing the conditions in their noodle factory; if the film is frothy and romantic, it's because Tsui wants to deliver its proletariat fantasy in the most palatable and digestible format possible.