Osaka Wrestling Restaurant

Osaka Wrestling Restaurant is a 2004 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Tommy Law. The film stars Timmy Hung, Sammo Hung and Mang Hoi. This was Mang Hoi's last film appearance until 2014's Kung Fu Jungle. The film features a storyline taking place in both Hong Kong and Japan. Story The movie begins with Ricky (Timmy Hung) as an incompetent chef at a restaurant owned by the harsh manager One-Eye Dragon (Law Ka-ying). Ricky is often yelled at and beaten by the other chefs and the manager. One day, Ricky's father dies and leaves him a large inheritance of money. Before his death, Ricky's father tells him to reconcile and work with his estranged older brother. That night, Ricky receives a phone call from his older brother Mike (Wayne Lai), who knows about the inheritance money and wants to use it for his idea. Ricky rejects his older brother, berating him for leaving the family and not helping with their hardships. Back at work, Ricky expresses his goal of making a famous dish and is again mocked by his manager, causing Ricky to snap, quit his job, and hit One-Eye Dragon with a cucumber. Angered, One-Eye Dragon and the other chefs prepare to attack him with kitchen utensils but Ricky flees, causing them to chase after him. As he runs, Ricky accidentally bumps into Kyoko (Miku Ueno), a Japanese actress, and causes her to fall into a river. Kyoko was already having trouble with her job because she was becoming uncomfortable eating too much food to advertise a restaurant. Falling into the river while on break causes her to lose her job and becomes stranded in Hong Kong. Ricky travels to Osaka, Japan to find his equally incompetent brother Mike, who is trying to escape from his own apartment because someone who he owes money is banging at his door. It turns out Mike has a vision for a Chinese restaurant combined with live Osaka Pro Wrestling in Hong Kong. They try to recruit the star wrestler Super Delfin but he rejects them. They return to Hong Kong and open a restaurant right across the street from Ricky's old restaurant. They hold a recruiting session for performers, which attracts all kinds of weird people including a fire-breathing Bruce Lee look-alike, a drunken kung fu master, a Classical Chinese dynasty warrior, a sumo wrestler, and a transgender football player. The last three are accepted and they are all given masked wrestling personas, with Mike being "Tiger Mask" and Ricky being "Super Delfin".