The Diary of a Husband serves as an illustration for the arrival of the white-collar economy, in which the extended family is replaced by the smaller nuclear family. It is a story about four pals who work at the same office, which, like other white-collar workplaces, has become the men's primary site of life, where livings are made and friendships fostered. Meanwhile, their wives have fostered something of their own—a brigade to catch cheating husbands. Much comedy is then generated by the cat-and-mouse game between the men and the women...The battle line drawn here between the sexes remains for years, to the extent that this very same story has been retold many times in Hong Kong films, including Men Suddenly in Black, the 2003 Pang Ho-cheung film with a similar Chinese title.
Ting Ying
as Hui Suet-sam
Lam Bun
as Mo Yat-ming
Keung Chung-Ping
as Lung Sheung-tin
羅蘭
as Mrs. Lung
Yu Ming
as Yuen Tei-lung
鄭君綿
as Chow Kei-Luen
Lee Hong Kum
as Fong Tin-bing
Lam Yim
as Fake Geisha Dor Dor
Ko Lo-Chuen
as Poon Lou-Bat
Hui Ying-Ying
as Mrs. Yuen
Ma Siu-Ying
as Mrs. Poon
To Sam-Ku
as 6th Aunt
