The Untold Story
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| Directed by | Herman Yau |
| Produced by | Danny Lee |
| Written by | Law Kam Fai Lau Wing Kin |
| Starring | Anthony Wong Danny Lee |
| Music by | Jonathan Wong |
| Cinematography | Cho Wai Kee |
| Editing by | Choi Hung |
| Release date(s) | 1993 |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
The Untold Story (Chinese: 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包) is a 1993 Hong Kong crime-thriller film directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong and Danny Lee. The film is allegedly based on a true crime that took place in 1985 Macau.
The film was followed up by two unrelated sequels with The Untold Story 2, featuring Wong returning in a supporting role, and The Untold Story 3 with Lee in another supporting role.
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[edit] Plot
The story opens with Wong Chi Hang fleeing the Hong Kong police, who are after him for murder. He winds up in Macau, where he takes a job as a cook at the 8 Immortals restaurant. After getting busted for cheating at a game of Mah Jong, Wong kills the owner and the family, taking over the restaurant himself. Meanwhile, the police, led by Officer Lee (Danny Lee: THE KILLER, DR. LAMB) are called out to a local beach. It seems that a bag of decomposing body parts has washed ashore.
The police begin to suspect Wong has both something to do with the washed up body parts and the disappearance of the family. Wong continues to gleefully murder any of his employees who suspect what might be going on . . . disposing of their bodies in a most interesting way.
Wong is captured near the middle of the film and placed in jail. The cops need a confession, so they place him in a cell with a relative of one of his victims in the hopes that he can beat it out of Wong. The prison scenes are just as disturbing as the murders that have occurred earlier in the film - perhaps more so. What makes them truly unsettling is not merely the violence, but the fact that the viewer begins to sympathize with Wong. It's hard to watch him suffer at the hands of the police and the felons around him and not feel some kind of empathy, despite the fact that he's a brutal murderer . . . and therein lies the true strength of this film. (this film is based loosely on a true story.)
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[edit] Category III Rating
In Hong Kong, due to its explicit and disturbing depictions of sex and violence involving the Wong Chi Hang character, The Untold Story was awarded a Category III rating (Persons Aged 18 and Above Only), the equivalent of the United States' NC-17 or X-ratings.
[edit] Awards
The Untold Story won its only nomination, with Anthony Wong winning his first award for Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
[edit] Cast and roles
- Danny Lee - Officer Lee
- Anthony Wong Chau Sang - Wong Chi Hang
- Emily Kwan - Bo
- Julie Lee - Pearl
- Tony Leung Siu Hung
- Shing Fui-On - Cheng Poon
- Parkman Wong - Bull
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