Baat sin faan dim ji yan yuk cha siu baau (1993)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Directors:

Danny Lee
Herman Yau

Writer:

Law Kam Fai (writer)

Release Date:

13 May 1993 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

Cops investigate a criminal running an unsuspecting restaurant, while trying to trace the steps back to how he ended up running it suddenly.

Plot Keywords:

Restaurant | Police | Beach | Torture | Murder

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Emily Kwan	...	Bo
Danny Lee	...	Officer Lee
Julie Lee	...	Pearl
Tony Leung Siu Hung
Fui-On Shing	...	Cheng Poon
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang	...	Wong Chi Hang
Parkman Wong	...	Bull

Also Known As:

Ba xian fan dian zhi ren rou cha shao bao (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Bunman: The Untold Story
Human Meat Pies: The Untold Story
Human Pork Chop (USA)
The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (USA)
The Untold Story (Hong Kong: English title)
The Untold Story: Human Meat Roast Pork Buns

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Taiwan:R-18 | Singapore:(Banned) (uncut version) | Australia:R | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Ontario) (cut version) | Hong Kong:III | Singapore:PG (heavily cut) | South Korea:18 (heavily cut) | USA:Unrated | Norway:(Banned) (video rating)

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Cinema City Film Productions

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Wong Chi Hang kills the first child, you can see that the cleaver travels through the child (positioned on the right side of the scene) and the blood splatter spurts on Wongs face directly from the underside, nowhere near where the child was positioned earlier.

Quotes:

[last lines]
Narrator: Although prima facie was enough to sue Wong Chi Hang for murdering Cheng Lam's family, the Macau cops couldn't sue him successfully because he had a strong attempt to commit suicide. He prefered killing himself that being judged. The file of the tragedy of Pat Sin Restaurant has been forced to be closed.

Movie Connections:

References King Kong (1933)

Hard to watch

This nasty little number from Hong Kong was at times hard for me to sit through. It's about a psycho who makes pork buns from human bodies. Sure it's not that original, but it more than makes up for it in sheer brutality. The comedy of the cops only makes the eminent horror all the more potent.

Let me make it clear, I'm speaking of the brutality of the psycho, not the brutality inflicted on him. I've read many reviews of this film, where the reviewer say he "feels sorry" for the guy in some scenes. Not me, that POS deserved EVERYTHING he got. If the measure of a good film is the amount of emotion it brings out in the viewer, then I hesitantly give it that. But it's definitely not for the squeamish.

My Grade: 3 out of 4 bloody machetes

DVD Extras: 2 Commentaries (one with the Director, the other with the star) Cast Biographies; Trailers for The Underground Banker, Mangkok Story, Ebola Syndrome, Cop Image, Organized Crime & Triad Bureau, Beast Cops, Armageddon; Theatrical hong kong Trailer