Flirting Scholar

Flirting Scholar (唐伯虎點秋香, 1993) is a Hong Kong comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lee Lik-Chi and starring Stephen Chow at the height of his "mo lei tau" — deadpan nonsense comedy — game.

Tang Bohu is one of China's four legendary scholars: brilliant on paper, miserable at home. Eight wives bully him, his brother bleeds him dry, and the only escape arrives in the form of Autumn Fragrance, a servant girl attached to a household that despises him. His solution — disguise himself as a houseboy and work his way into her life from the inside — is absurd by design. Gong Li plays opposite Chow, and their scenes together are the reason the film still gets quoted across Cantonese-speaking internet thirty years on.

The humor runs on pure chaos rather than plot logic, which is exactly the point. If classic Hong Kong slapstick with zero regard for plausibility is your thing, stream Flirting Scholar (1993) on iFILM.