The Untold Story
1993 ‘Bat sin fan dim ji yan yuk cha siu bau’ Directed by Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Herman Yau
Synopsis
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 Eight Immortals Restaurant, which serves delicious pork bao. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant's former owner; he and his family have disappeared; staff at the restaurant continue to go missing; and, Wong can't produce a signed bill of sale: but there's no evidence. The police arrest Wong and try to torture him into a confession. Can they make him talk? And what was in those pork bao?
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Another slice of Cat III craziness from Hong Kong...again starring that master lunatic, Anthony Wong!
Want a guy stabbed in the head with a receipt spike?
A woman raped to death with a bunch of chopsticks?
Bumbling comedy cops eating human meat buns?You are well served here then!
But it gets a special mention for the final scene...as Wong reveals all to the police. A whole family slaughtered in flashback, including small children having their throats slit before being beheaded!
With all this horror, the slapstick police and their hooker loving chief seem oddly out of place. Imagine if Steve Guttenberg and his Police Academy pals turned up in the middle of a Friday the 13th and you get a sense of the clash of styles.
But if your stomach and love of gore are strong, this is a must see!
I'm off for a lie down... -
Pretty entertaining film, but I don't quite feel as though it's the masterpiece of Cat 3 that many people paint it to be. It's a film of two halfs, one part police comedy and the other extreme gore film. I really enjoyed both sides, and I really enjoy the blatantly offense Hong Kong humour that permeates even the mainstream movies. The problem is that you spend 8 or so minutes at a time within one tone or the other which makes the film drag for some strange reason. You feel as if you're watching two movies and whenever I was watching one section I wanted to be watching the other side of it. I'm used to the conflicting tone in…
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Another classic Hong Kong movie i'd never seen, but always wanted to...Although my enthusiasm to see this was always more cautious than say, Naked Killer, as I'd always heard that it was a bit gruelling. They were right.
Anthony Wong plays the "owner" of a small restaurant in Macau who has a secret, he's a horrible murdering psycho bastard. The more people find out (or even nearly find out) his secret, he brutally murders them. Then turns their remains into pork buns to sell to his customers, hence why the film can often be found under the brilliant title 'Bunman'. It's a harsh film at times, especially when Wong loses it on his female co-worker, attacks her and ends up…
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Another slice of Cat III craziness from Hong Kong...again starring that master lunatic, Anthony Wong!
Want a guy stabbed in the head with a receipt spike?
A woman raped to death with a bunch of chopsticks?
Bumbling comedy cops eating human meat buns?You are well served here then!
But it gets a special mention for the final scene...as Wong reveals all to the police. A whole family slaughtered in flashback, including small children having their throats slit before being beheaded!
With all this horror, the slapstick police and their hooker loving chief seem oddly out of place. Imagine if Steve Guttenberg and his Police Academy pals turned up in the middle of a Friday the 13th and you get a sense of the clash of styles.
But if your stomach and love of gore are strong, this is a must see!
I'm off for a lie down... -
Pretty entertaining film, but I don't quite feel as though it's the masterpiece of Cat 3 that many people paint it to be. It's a film of two halfs, one part police comedy and the other extreme gore film. I really enjoyed both sides, and I really enjoy the blatantly offense Hong Kong humour that permeates even the mainstream movies. The problem is that you spend 8 or so minutes at a time within one tone or the other which makes the film drag for some strange reason. You feel as if you're watching two movies and whenever I was watching one section I wanted to be watching the other side of it. I'm used to the conflicting tone in…
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Another classic Hong Kong movie i'd never seen, but always wanted to...Although my enthusiasm to see this was always more cautious than say, Naked Killer, as I'd always heard that it was a bit gruelling. They were right.
Anthony Wong plays the "owner" of a small restaurant in Macau who has a secret, he's a horrible murdering psycho bastard. The more people find out (or even nearly find out) his secret, he brutally murders them. Then turns their remains into pork buns to sell to his customers, hence why the film can often be found under the brilliant title 'Bunman'. It's a harsh film at times, especially when Wong loses it on his female co-worker, attacks her and ends up…
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I saw this a few years after it came out. Part Police Academy and other part mind f*ck horror. Definitely a film I would not recommend for the faint of heart. I will never watch this again. Disturbing.