''Crime at the Chinese Restaurant'' ( it, Delitto al ristorante cinese) is a 1981
Italian
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poliziottesco
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comedy film
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directed by
Bruno Corbucci. It is the eighth chapter in the Nico Giraldi film series; in this chapter
Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian (born Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa; 3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban-born actor and singer with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and ...
plays a double role, the inspector Nico Giraldi and the Chinese Ciu Ci Ciao, a character reprised, with slight changes, from the role of Sakura that the same Milian played in the 1975 spaghetti western ''
The White, the Yellow, and the Black
''The White, the Yellow, and the Black'' ( it, Il bianco, il giallo, il nero), also known as ''Samurai'' and ''Shoot First... Ask Questions Later'', is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film.
It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Cor ...
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Cast
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Tomas Milian
Tomas Milian (born Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa; 3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban-born actor and singer with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and ...
as Nico Giraldi / Ciu Ci Ciao
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Bombolo as Bombolo
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Enzo Cannavale
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including ''Cinema Paradiso'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academ ...
as Vincenzo Quagliarulo
* Olimpia Di Nardo as Angela
* John Chen as Chan Zeng Piao
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Giacomo Furia as Giudice Arducci
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Massimo Vanni as Brigadier Gargiulo
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Alfredo Rizzo as Il marito dell'amante di Papetti
Release
The film was released in
Italy
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on November 19, 1981.
See also
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List of Italian films of 1981
A list of films produced in Italy in 1981 (see 1981 in film):
References Footnotes
Sources
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External linksItalian films of 1981at the Internet Movie Database
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References
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1981 films
Films directed by Bruno Corbucci
Films scored by Detto Mariano
Italian crime comedy films
Poliziotteschi films
Films set in Rome
1980s crime comedy films
1981 comedy films
1980s Italian-language films
1980s Italian films
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