The Dead and the Deadly (Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG)

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Release Date
8 Dec 2024 (Sun)
Category
--- (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
95 Minutes
Language
Cantonese
Subtitle
Chinese and English

Hong Kong redemption:

1. Purchase any four tickets in the "Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG"  series and get a Limited Edition Poster.

*All gifts must be redeemed on the designated website (https://promo.emperorcinemas.com/en). Subject to terms and conditions. Images are for reference only, actual items may vary. Limited quantities available, on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last, without prior notice.

Hong Kong redemption:

1. Purchase any four tickets in the "Tribute to Screenwriter BARRY WONG"  series and get a Limited Edition Poster.

*All gifts must be redeemed on the designated website (https://promo.emperorcinemas.com/en). Subject to terms and conditions. Images are for reference only, actual items may vary. Limited quantities available, on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last, without prior notice.

Director
Wu Ma
Cast
Sammo Hung, Lam Ching-Ying, Wu Ma
Synopsis
This is a ghost story about a young man who is into sorcery, his girlfriend, and the ghost who goes astray. The young man is honest Gee, a helper to Grand Uncle who is the town's high priest. They are now found in the ancestral shrine of the Mas working wonders. Gee is also being reprimanded by Grand Uncle for being rude to his fiancée, Ah Wun. The last of the Mas, the rich family in town, is back but Ma Cheong-lin is coming home dead. Accompanying the body is a woman who claims to be Ma's wife and very much pregnant.

But Gee knows his boyhood friend Ma couldn't bea husband because he was impotent. Gee therefore examines Ma's body. There is no wound. Gee concludes Ma has been poisoned.

He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. When no terasure is discovered, except a promise that Ma's son would inherit a fortune, Ma is killed forthwith by his cohorts……

This is a ghost story about a young man who is into sorcery, his girlfriend, and the ghost who goes astray. The young man is honest Gee, a helper to Grand Uncle who is the town's high priest. They are now found in the ancestral shrine of the Mas working wonders. Gee is also being reprimanded by Grand Uncle for being rude to his fiancée, Ah Wun. The last of the Mas, the rich family in town, is back but Ma Cheong-lin is coming home dead. Accompanying the body is a woman who claims to be Ma's wife and very much pregnant.

But Gee knows his boyhood friend Ma couldn't bea husband because he was impotent. Gee therefore examines Ma's body. There is no wound. Gee concludes Ma has been poisoned.

He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. He is wrong. Ma is not dead. He is using some magic to fake death in order to steal the family's funeral treasure. When no terasure is discovered, except a promise that Ma's son would inherit a fortune, Ma is killed forthwith by his cohorts……
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