Our Diversions @shengsterino: 九品芝麻官 Hail the Judge (1994 China Star Entertainment Group)

九品芝麻官
Hail the Judge

《九品芝麻官之白面包青天》（英语：Hail the Judge）是1994年的香港喜剧电影，由王晶执导，周星驰主演。副标题“白面包青天”中的“白面”即“白脸”，原因是周星驰扮演北宋名臣包拯的后人包龙星。包龙星是一个小官，为了帮一名冤狱被判处死刑的女子伸冤，历经千辛万苦，终于打败了犯罪者与背后的恶势力，告大白于天下。

Hail the Judge (Chinese: 九品芝麻官) is a 1994 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Wong Jing, starring Stephen Chow, Cheung Man, and Ng Man Tat.

Starring演员
周星驰Stephen Chow, 吴孟达Ng Man-tat, 张敏Sharla Cheung, 吴回, 夏萍, 锺丽缇Christy Chung, 梁荣忠Joey Leung, 蔡少芬Ada Choi, 李健仁, 黄凤琼, 田启文, 程东, 黄一山, 欧瑞伟, 卢雄, 谷峰, 邹兆龙Collin Chou, 刘洵, 徐锦江Elvis Tsui, 黄一飞, 吴启华Lawrence Ng, 苑琼丹Kingdom Yuen, 鲁芬, 曾健明, 杨和, 许思敏, 郑家生


Plot
In 1874, an idle young man, Pao Lung Sing (Stephen Chow), is appointed as county magistrate-in-waiting, a minor governmental official, after his father, a retired governmental official, purchased the position for him. Because the county magistrate Chan Pak Cheung had taken leave due to illness, Pao becomes acting magistrate, accompanied by his cowardly but loyal nephew, Pao Yiu Wai (Ng Man-tat), as his advisor and personal assistant. Pao is a descendant to the famed Sung Dynasty judge Pao Ching, who is known for his impartiality. Pao, however, is corrupt and despised by the public for his money-digging ways, but is popular with the local gentry. He was invited by Master Chi, a rich merchant, to attend the wedding between his tuberculosis-ridden son and Chin Lin (Sharla Cheung Man), a beautiful young woman. During the wedding, however, Lei Pao (known by his nickname "Panther), the top kuai of the Peking yamen, storms the occasion, claiming that the Chi family is harboring criminals on the run, who had disguised themselves as commoner guests at the wedding banquet. After subjugating the criminals, Lei threatens the Chi family with a bribe to be left alone, as he is also highly corrupt. Lei also robs the local citizenry of their material possessions using his masterful wushu techniques. Pao quickly shows allegiance to Lei, much to the disappointment to Master Chi, and offers to throw a banquet for Lei at the magistrate's court, promising many prostitutes. The offer pleases Lei, but when he arrived at the court, he is subdued by the guards. It turns out that Pao feigned allegiance to Lei and had planned on subduing him from causing further harm to innocent people. For this act, Pao is redeemed in the eyes of the county's folk. Shang Wai (Collin Chou), the spoiled son of Navy Commander Shang Kwan (Ku Feng) and uncle-in-law to Chin Lin (now "Chi Siu Ling" by marriage), has an affair with his cousin and Siu Ling's mother-in-law, Yiu Yuen Kwan (Wong Fung-King). During the wedding banquet, Shang is smitten by the beauty of Siu Ling. Three months later, when on a visit to the Chi family, Shang secretly drugged Siu Ling and raped her while she was praying to the Buddha. Siu Ling awakens during the act, however, and after fiercely resisting, escapes. In a fit of uncontrollable rage, Shang murders all other members of the Chi family and burns their estate. Pao and the guards see the fire when drinking out late, and apprehend Shang, detaining him in the county prison. The wealth of the Shang family allows them to recruit the famed lawyer "Mirror" Fong Tong Kan, one of the Four Legendary Advocates of Canton, equally famous for his skill and his lack of scruples. Buttering up to Pao, Fong requests for permission for Shang's grandmother to visit him in jail, which Pao grants. Fong brings Kwan instead and cooks up a plan to frame Siu Ling for the murders instead. Kwan's men removed evidence of Shang's involvement and planted evidence that indicted Siu Ling. To prevent Pao from interfering, Fong offers Pao a generous bribe, knowing that he could not resist such an amount. The next day, Fong successfully sued Pao for corruption, a charge that he could not deny, and was thus taken into custody. He subsequently convinced the acting judge that Siu Ling committed the crime, who ordered Siu Ling to be placed on death row, putting her in jail after caning her half to death. Utilizing connections from Pao's father, Yau Wai manages to break Pao out of jail. Pao promises Siu Ling to bring Shang to justice and save her. On his deathbed, Pao's father asks Pao to seek help from Lord Fa, the Minister of Justice, and his old friend, in Peking. During their journey, they encounter all sorts of wacky characters, including Stone Mansion a circus performer, and Yu Yin a classy prostitute. In the end, the real perpetrator of the mass murder is cut in half with a guillotine and the corrupt officials are brought to justice including lawyer Fong.

剧情

清朝同治年间（剧中应为1874年），广东人包龙星因不学无术，甚至不太识字（如把“庶民”读成“蔗民”），无力科举，其父包不同曾任县令，望子成龙，于是出钱为他捐纳为九品候补知县（故称“芝麻官”，比喻其官卑职小），因其上司七品县令陈百祥告病在家，因而由包龙星暂代县令一职。包龙星为宋代号称青天大人的包龙图（包拯）后裔，却无包龙图维护公义的精神，时常接受恶人的贿赂而诬害善良，以至于人人喊打。有一次，包龙星应邀参加当地仕绅戚家婚宴，原来是患有严重肺痨的戚家二少爷为了冲喜，娶了美女秦莲，是为“戚秦氏”，谁知京师六扇门第一捕头雷豹（花名“豹子头”），追捕江洋大盗时途经此地，豹子头自恃武艺高强，在途中殴打无辜的百姓，大闹戚家喜酒，勒索财物，包龙星假意奉承豹子头，说要召大量酒女，花酒招待，却设了一个陷阱把欺负百姓的捕头豹子头逮捕，而一夕翻身，成为人人尊敬的好官。水师提督常昆之子常威，与姚婉君（又称“戚姚氏”，常威的表妹，戚秦氏的婆婆）私通，在喜宴中，常威看见戚秦氏美艳动人，于是色心大起，开始觊觎戚秦氏。三个月后，常威闯入戚家，将正在礼佛的戚秦氏迷奸。戚秦氏却醒转，抵死反抗、逃走，常威一怒之下杀了戚家一十三口，仅有戚秦氏幸免，包龙星与衙役们饮酒夜归时捉了常威，将常威拘禁于县府大牢。常家聘来的广东四大状师之一的方唐镜，方唐镜奸险巧诈，请包龙星网开一面，让“常威的祖母”到狱中面会，其实却是带着常昆到狱中，与常威串通灭证，将这桩灭门血案嫁祸给有孕在身的戚秦氏，用一个晚上的时间把原告打成了被告，也陷害了包龙星，使其拿了大量白银，因收贿罪身陷囹圄。包龙星的侄子兼师爷包有为，派人帮助包龙星逃狱，包龙星结识了杂技团的莫再蒋、莫再缇两兄妹，混入杂技团，不久有为也入了团，包龙星跟莫再缇谈起恋爱，并在杂技团庇护之下，到了京师。包龙星试图投靠父亲昔日的生死之交刑部尚书花公，谁知花公不仅不念旧情，还与常昆勾结，恶整了包龙星叔侄一顿，使他们在京城无以为生，两人到庙口贩卖纸钱、线香，又遭到常昆、花公派人迫害，包有为因为去领取救济物资而沦为街民，包龙星则因吃霸王餐，被迫成为妓院“凤来楼”端茶跑腿的侍应生，祖传的“青天秘笈”也意外烧毁。包龙星某日在妓院中因看到老鸨三姑与附近一家妓院的老鸨“烈火奶奶”吵架，顿时醒悟，奋发练就三寸不烂之舌，“凤来楼”当家艺妓如烟向包龙星寻求温暖时惹怒了老鸨三姑，三姑因而与包龙星吵架争执惨败，接下来也跟所有附近的婆婆妈妈大吵一番，荣登凤来楼吵架王。某日如烟与包龙星闲聊，孰料豹子头、同治帝和协理大臣先后前来凤来楼找如烟，同治帝利用斗兽棋原理，命地位最低的包龙星出手。包龙星凭口才成功赶走协理大臣后，扬言要泄漏皇帝嫖妓的事，皇帝只好准许其告御状，并封他为八府巡按（台湾版配音作八府巡抚），原先与包敌对的豹子头也被皇帝敕封为包龙星的副官，加入了包龙星阵营。上谕命包龙星为钦差大臣重审此案，尚书花公、提督常昆、县令陈百祥会审。在公堂上，虽然包龙星成功推翻了方唐镜勾结衙门所作的种种伪证，但常昆找来了内务府总管李连英赶来旁听，还带来了老佛爷赐予的黄马褂让常威穿上，使得包龙星无法对常威拷打取供。在李连英威逼要尽快结案之下，包龙星急中生智，借“滴血认亲”的把戏套出了常威的口供。常威劫持李连英，想要逃离公堂，但豹子头格斗中打倒了常威，把常威推至虎头铡之上，并就地正法，戚秦氏终于沈冤得雪，花公、常昆、陈百祥三名官员也因为包庇常威，锒铛入狱，游街示众。包龙星一战成名，随即辞官，以戚秦氏提供戚家家传壮阳药秘方，借印度神丹之名作推销，大发利市，并娶了昔日帮助过自己的杂技团千金莫再缇与艺妓如烟，大享齐人之福，且两位娇妻同时怀孕，双喜临门。正当众人庆贺时，恬亲王到场并宣布同治帝驾崩，包龙星问死因，恬亲王尴尬地低声回答“花柳病”，包龙星吓得把从皇帝身上捡到的龙内裤给丢开，也让在场众人给吓到。