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Screenplay:
Kam-Fai LawCinematography:
Wai-Kei ChoComposer:
Jonathon Bong WongCast:
Anthony Wong, Danny Lee, Fui-on Shing, Julie Lee, Siu-ming Lau, Parkman Wong, James Ha Chim-si, Wai-nan So, Emily Bo-Wai Kwan, Cinda Hui, Johnny Tin-Dok Wong (more)Plots(1)
In 1978 in Hong Kong, a grisly murder takes place. Eight years later on a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of coarse, happy-go-lucky cops investigate and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of The Eight Immortals Restaurant famous for its delicious pork buns. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant's former owner who has disappeared along with the rest of his family. Staff at the restaurant continue to go missing but the police can’t find any hard evidence that Wong is responsible. When he can’t produce a bill of sale proving his purchase of the restaurant, Wong is arrested and the police try to torture him into a confession. Can they make him talk? And what was in those famous pork buns? (88 Films)
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When they try to create humor in Hong Kong, it is usually lost on me... Wannabe humorous police scenes are gradually phased out completely, but at first there are more than enough of them. If The Untold Story had been absolutely serious from the beginning, it could have worked excellently. Especially since the movie can rely on the always first-class Anthony Wong.
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I'm slapping myself for putting the film off for so long!! The Untold Story is not only the most brutal horror film from Hong Kong, but also the most brutal horror film of the 90s, more or less a prequel to Macabre!! Anthony Wong is brilliant here, the guy was born to play these roles of crazy psychopath, murderer or maniac, it suits him perfectly. The film features some excellent sequences, which I will never forget, such as the scene in prison, where the main character gets his ass kicked, bullying of the deepest grain, or the very end, where they show the massacre of a whole family, including four children, who are then cut into pieces, all on camera!! So this is both very daring considering the time it was made and a great mockery of all the censored horror films of the 80s and 90s. A legitimate cult film. 9/10
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