Zai sheng ren (1981)

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88 min - Horror | Thriller - 22 December 1981 (Hong Kong)

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Puppets are brought to life and terrorize a rural area in medieval China.

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Cast

Credited cast:
	George Lam	...	George Lam
	Flora Cheung	...	Flora Cheung
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Mang-ha Chen
	Sang Cheung
	Huang Chin
	Ging-Ping Du
	Keung Fong
	Ping Kam
	Kwok-Hung Law
	Hudson Leung
	Tin Sang Lung
	Lai-Chu Ng
	Leung Ng
	Hung Tse
	Yin Tse	...	Tse Yin (as Xian Xie)

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When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious. Written by Ørnås

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