A Foreign Luck(2006)
The stocks did not rise, and no matter how much you bought the lottery, you couldn't win the lottery. Liu Liu (played by Wu Jing) is a gambler who always wants to make a fortune. With bad luck in gambling, he owed gambling debts, and his mother complained every day that he only thought about the good things about the pie falling from the sky, and he was used to it. He was walking aimlessly on the street, when suddenly a leather bag full of jewelry and checks fell from the sky and hit him on the head,...
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The stocks did not rise, and no matter how much you bought the lottery, you couldn't win the lottery. Liu Liu (played by Wu Jing) is a gambler who always wants to make a fortune. With bad luck in gambling, he owed gambling debts, and his mother complained every day that he only thought about the good things about the pie falling from the sky, and he was used to it. He was walking aimlessly on the street, when suddenly a leather bag full of jewelry and checks fell from the sky and hit him on the head,...
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