Ordered as imports from Hong Kong on DVD with DR Lamb and The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (1992 and 1993-both also reviewed) this final title is one that I for some reason kept pushing to the back of the pile. Selling the disc recently, I decided it was finally time to tell the story.
View on the film:
Made when not only the CAT III era had fizzled out but the Hong Kong film industry was declining as the industry in the Mainland started to grow, director Yiu-Kuen Ng & cinematographer Chiu-Lam Ko serve up a dish flavoured with the peak of the style, from the opening shot of a woman in the midsts of passion,lit with a sleazy atmosphere.
Plating up wacky Comedy antics from fast-zooms and brash colours over customers arguing with each other in the restaurant,Yiu-Kuen turns the heat up with tasty close-ups of customers unknowingly eating human ribs, diced to a kinky atmosphere of CAT III exposed skin,and jump-cuts to the head of the latest victim sitting in the fridge.
Invited by Kuen and her husband Cheung (a dead-pan,worn-down Emotion Cheung) to help at the restaurant,the screenplay by Kam-Fai Law brings Fung (played by a devilishly seductive Paulyn Sun) to disrupt the marriage and the slick Comedy exchanges,with a great CAT III raunchiness wrapping Cheung round her little finger, whilst Law gives Fung a macabre glee in cooking up a untold story.
View on the film:
Made when not only the CAT III era had fizzled out but the Hong Kong film industry was declining as the industry in the Mainland started to grow, director Yiu-Kuen Ng & cinematographer Chiu-Lam Ko serve up a dish flavoured with the peak of the style, from the opening shot of a woman in the midsts of passion,lit with a sleazy atmosphere.
Plating up wacky Comedy antics from fast-zooms and brash colours over customers arguing with each other in the restaurant,Yiu-Kuen turns the heat up with tasty close-ups of customers unknowingly eating human ribs, diced to a kinky atmosphere of CAT III exposed skin,and jump-cuts to the head of the latest victim sitting in the fridge.
Invited by Kuen and her husband Cheung (a dead-pan,worn-down Emotion Cheung) to help at the restaurant,the screenplay by Kam-Fai Law brings Fung (played by a devilishly seductive Paulyn Sun) to disrupt the marriage and the slick Comedy exchanges,with a great CAT III raunchiness wrapping Cheung round her little finger, whilst Law gives Fung a macabre glee in cooking up a untold story.