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Release Date:
August 11, 1990
Original Title:
屍家重地
Alternate Titles:
Mortuary Blues
Genres:
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Production Companies:
Bo Ho Films
Orange Sky Golden Harvest
Paragon Films Ltd.
Production Countries:
Hong Kong
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 92
On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually the islanders are living off the loot their ancestors made by raiding a government gold galleon some centuries ago. They buried much of the treasure and a dormant vampire under a pagoda......
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Art Direction:
Raymond Lee King-Man
Director:
Jeffrey Lau
Director of Photography:
Jimmy Leung Chi-Ming
Johnny Koo Kwok-Wah
Chan Yuen-Kai
Fight Choreographer:
Corey Yuen
Yuen Miu
Original Music Composer:
Lowell Lo Koon-Ting
Producer:
Corey Yuen
Production Manager:
Sammo Hung
Writer:
Jeffrey Lau
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