Those Merry Souls
1985 · Movie · 95 min. · Hong Kong
Chiu Chi-Lung and Ng Kuai-Tak are two good friends and in the same profession as stuntmen. Little does Chi-Lung realize that his own father is a messenger of death. Chi-Lung's father is ordered to collect Kuai-Tak's soul, he purposefully fails. Kuai-Tak lives on but doesn't know that Chi-Lung's father has shortened his own life to make amends. Chi-Lung is in great grief. A series of strange things happen, Chi-Lung discovers his own horror that he has inherited his father's "job".
Direction Lau Kar-Wing
Cast Yuen Biao · Eric Tsang · Leung-Wai Lam · Stanley Fung · Ellen Ng · Chung Fat · Lam Ching-Ying · Lily Li · Richard Ng · Lau Kar-Wing · Chin Kar-Lok · Chun Wong · Sammo Hung · Wu Ma · Billy Ching · Lee Chi-Git · Elaine Jin · Yue Ming · Moon Lee · Pang Yun-Cheung · Billy Lau
Soundtrack Tang Siu-Lam
Screenplay Huang Ying · Szeto Cheuk
Original title Shi lai yun dao (Those Merry Souls)
Also known as From the Great Beyond
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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