- Director
- Herman Yau
- Year
- 1993
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 96 min
Also released as
- 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽
- The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story
- 八仙饭店之人肉叉烧包
- Bat sin fan dim ji yan yuk cha siu bau
- Human Pork Chop
- 人肉叉燒包
- 人肉叉燒飽
- The Untold Story: Human Mean Roast Pork Buns
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The Untold Story
The Untold Story is a 1993 Hong Kong cannibal film directed by Herman Yau.
A Macau restaurateur and the pork buns. Anthony Wong won Best Actor for it, which tells you about Hong Kong in 1993.
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Based on a real case from 1985. A man takes over a restaurant after the owner's family disappear, and the police are slow, incompetent and more interested in each other than the case.
Herman Yau alternates broad police-station comedy with sequences of extreme, sustained violence, and the whiplash is deliberate and extremely unpleasant.
Anthony Wong's performance is the film. He plays Wong Chi-hang as a man with a short fuse and no interiority whatsoever, and the interrogation scenes are frightening because he is so plainly capable of anything.
He won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for it.
It was Category III, which was Hong Kong's adults-only rating and which produced an entire cycle of films like this in the early 1990s.
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