Royal Mess

Stephen Chow has made a couple of brilliant kung fu comedies that broke in the US - Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. He's also done tons of less famous stuff, such as Royal Tramp.

In RT, Chow plays a storyteller/fool in a brothel who gets mixed up with (more or less in order) Chin revolutionaries, Imperial palace eunuchs, the young emperor, his horny sister, the dowager empress, evil Tibetan martial arts lamas, and ... um, I'm getting lost here.

Anyway, the fool becomes a palace official and starts stealing everything he can get. He also gets involved with beautiful martial arts twins who want to marry him, as does the princess. There are fun fight scenes - everyone agrees that Chow's kung fu is weak, but all the other characters are powerful. The eunuchs can't be kicked in the balls because they don't have any. The lamas fight with cymbals, using them as giant shuriken, and also flinging them like frisbees and using them as flying stepping stones (yes, it's all wirework).

I understand there's a lot of clever wordplay in the original dialog. The subtitles are funny, but not because they are clever.

In conclusion, Royal Tramp 2 has Brigitte Lin in it! But I probably won't bother.