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Mortuary Blues

Mortuary Blues

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 11, 1990

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

User Score

65%

Original Title

屍家重地

Production Companies

Paragon Films Ltd., Bo Ho Films, Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Director

Jeffrey Lau

Description

On a remote island off Hong Kong, its rich and happy inhabitants are celebrating an annual ritual by staging an operatic show. The island is not productive but its people are rich. No wonder police chief Yuan Kuei becomes suspicious. He thinks he is sitting on top of a narcotics ring. His two men are ordered to watch closely movement of the opera people. Little does the chief know that actually the islanders are living off the loot their ancestors made by raiding a government gold galleon some centuries ago. They buried much of the treasure and a dormant vampire under a pagoda......