From [Sea of People] to [The Pursuer Also]
Sensational hanging water rock killings
It was put on the screen twice
The authenticity of the event itself
Easily implicated in the movie
Realistic
meanwhile
Dusted for years
Finally broken in recent days
Silver Serial Murders
Under the promotion of the Ministry of Public Security's Golden Shield Film and Television
Officially taken over by Lu Chuan
A movie version is just around the corner
In fact
Film adaptation of bizarre murders
Nor is it over
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From the last century to the present
A lot of real-life killings
Both have been adapted into films
Or cruel, or bizarre
What is shown
There are human distortions
There is also helplessness in life
Film: [Juvenile Murder on Muling Street] (1991)
Director: Yang Dechang
Starring: Zhang Zhen / Yang Jingyi / Zhang Guozhu / Wang Qizan / Lin Hongming
The crime occurred at 10:10 p.m. on June 15, 1961
Location: Taipei City, at the bottom of Lane 7, Mulling Street
The murderer in this case is Mao Wu, the most junior member of the "Jasper Gang", and the deceased is his girlfriend Liu Min. Mao Wu confessed that she was originally in a relationship with Liu Min, but unexpectedly, a few days ago, she had contact with Ma Jishen, a member of the "Pirate Gang".
After the persuasion was fruitless, Mao Wu lost his mind and killed Liu Min.
▲ [Juvenile Murder On Muling Street] poster
In 1991, Yang Dechang revived the case, adapted it, and spent nearly four hours of film time telling the story of the enmity between a group of teenagers.
▲ The film alludes to the hidden connection between man and history in that gray turbulent era
Film: [Dr. Lamb] (1992)
Director: Li Xiuxian / Deng Yancheng
Starring: Lee So-hyun / Ren Dahua / Zheng Zeshi / Ji Jiafa
The time of the crime: February 11, 1982, at about 4:00 a.m
The place of the crime: Shing Mun River, Sha Tin, Hong Kong
The murderer, Lin Guoyun, a night taxi driver, killed four night-time women, took the bodies home and raped them, and finally dismembered them into specimens and even put them in a freezer for long-term preservation.
Because Lin Guoyun committed crimes mostly on rainy nights, he was called "Rainy Night Butcher".
▲ [Dr. Lamb] poster
After the implementation of the film classification system in Hong Kong, there have been a series of films with bloody crimes and violent scenes, and [Dr. Lamb] was born in this situation.
This film is also the opening work of Li Xiuxian's "Crime Level 3", using flashback techniques, not only reproducing the crime process of the butcher on the rainy night, but also trying to go deep into the heart of the criminal and get a glimpse of the tragic time of his childhood
Film: [Eight Immortals Hotel's Human Meat Char Siu Bun] (1993)
Director: Qiu Litao
Starring: Huang Qiusheng / Li Huayue / Li Xiuxian / Cheng Kui'an
The crime occurred at 12:00 noon on August 8, 1985
Location: Black Sha Po Beach, Coloane, Macau
In April 1986, the police received a letter from the owner of a restaurant called The Eight Immortals, claiming that his brother had suddenly disappeared and that the property had been taken over by a man named Huang Zhiheng. After investigation, the police confirmed Huang Zhiheng's murder, according to his confession, most of the dead were killed by him at the Eight Immortals Hotel.
Until December 4, 1986, when Huang Zhiheng committed suicide by cutting his veins in prison, the police did not find the entire body of the deceased (only some of the limbs were found), so there is a theory that the murderer made the body into a meat bag.
▲ [Human meat char siu bun] poster
Seven years after the incident, Qiu Litao filmed [Eight Immortals Hotel's Human Meat Char Siu Bun], and speculation about the "meat bun" was directly presented in the film - the murderer killed the owner of the restaurant and his family of eight and shredded the body and made it into a char siu bun for sale.
Qiu Litao is not shy about the cruel details of the original case, so the film has a lot of bloody horror plots
Film: [The Strange Case of The Dissolution] (1993)
Director: Zha Chuanyi
Starring: Wu Zhenyu / Huang Qiusheng / Ye Tong
The crime occurred in May 1985
Location: A village in Sha Tin, Hong Kong
The "flight attendant dissolution case" that occurred in the 1980s was triggered by a love triangle. Before the crime, the murderer Huang David interacted with two women at the same time, and one day, the two women quarreled at Huang David's residence.
Later, David Huang reconciled with the middle, but there was a clear bias between the words. More than ten hours later, David Huang joined forces with one of the women to kill 28-year-old flight attendant Huang Zijun and dissolve the body with a corrosive liquid.
Because the murderer method in this case was very peculiar at that time, it caused great repercussions in the society.
▲[The Strange Case of Corpse Dissolution]
Such an event, Hong Kong filmmakers who are keen to adapt bizarre cases will naturally not miss it
There are two versions of [The Strange Case of the Dissolution], the first version is not much different from the original event, and the second version has some hands and feet on the narrative structure, in addition to the basic case, it also analyzes the emotional relationship between people.
Film: [Chef] (1993)
Director: Lin Yixiong
Starring: Lin Lisan / Dai Mengmeng / Weng Hong / Qiu Yueqing / Li Yuexian
The time of the crime: February 23, 1988, 3 p.m
Location: Conifer Garden, Block D
One afternoon in the late 1980s, a 28-year-old woman surnamed Fu was about to leave the house when she saw her mother wiping the floor with blood between her nostrils, and she realized her father's disappearance. After repeated questioning by the woman, the mother confessed to the crime of killing her husband.
A month later, the woman's uncle reported the case to the police, officially exposing the first dismemberment case in Hong Kong where the body could not be found.
In the original case, the mother, her brother and two expatriates killed her husband in a brutal manner, and the appalling circumstances added legend to the case.
In the movie [Cooking Man], director Lin Yixiong's story focuses on the murderer's dismemberment of the body, as well as the bloody scene of "cooking the corpse", because there are many doubts in the original case, and whether there is another truth is unknown.
▲[Chef]
In the film, Lin Yixiong focuses on excavating the spirit of the heroine's abnormality, and also casts a new fog over the case
Film: [Human Head Tofu Soup] (2001)
Director: Yang Zhijian
Starring: Wang Minde / Tang Yingying / Wu Dairong / Chen Zhaozhao / Zhang Yongyan
Date of the crime: Mid-April 1999
Location: 3rd Floor Housing, 31 Karenway Old Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
At the end of the last century, the "HelloKitty Corpse Collection" was a sensation. Fan Minyi, a 23-year-old girl, was taken to her residence by her and two friends (Leung Shing-zu and Leung Wai-lun) and tortured to death because she had not repaid her debts to the murderer, Chen Wenle.
In order to destroy the corpse, the three amputated the body and hid the head in a pillow with a Hellokitty pattern. On 6 December 2000, the three accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The case was chosen by locals as the fourth most sensational case in history (the first three were the Rainy Night Butcher in 1982, the Happy Valley Cardboard Box Hideout case in 1974, and the Tuen Mun Sex Demon Case in 1992).
▲ [Human Head Tofu Soup] is regarded by many fans as the "most terrifying movie" of the year
This horrific tragedy, because the content is too violent and explicit, the film is even positioned as a tertiary film, the film is still so, you can imagine how tragic the original case is.
Through similar films in the early years, the audience can see the social chaos at that time, and they can't help but think of the factors behind the chaos
Film: [Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai] (2009)
Director: Xu Anhua
Starring: Ren Dahua / Zhang Jingchu / Luo Huijuan / Qin Enmei
The time of the crime: 7 p.m. on April 11, 2004
Location: Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong
On 9 February 2004, Kim Shuk-young, who lives in Tin Shui Wai, asked SWD for help on the grounds that "her husband insulted her daughter and hid a knife at home", but in the following two months, she repeatedly changed her mouth on the matter, so that sworn and the police department thought it was just a simple domestic violence incident.
Until about 7 p.m. on April 11, the police received a report that Kim Sook-young and her two daughters had died of multiple knives, and her husband had also committed suicide.
▲ [Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai] poster
Five years later, Xu Anhua made a new adaptation and interpretation of this tragedy, on the one hand, the female deceased in the case has become a bride who has passed the port, on the other hand, the reason for the husband's murder of his wife is jealousy.
The film incorporates Hui Anhua's thinking on practical issues such as brides crossing the port and the aging population in Hong Kong
Film: [Crowds of People] (2012)
Director: Cai Shangjun
Starring: Chen Jianbin / Tao Hong / Wu Xiubo
The time of the crime: August 8, 2007
Location of the crime: Hanging water rock in The village of Qiao Zhen in Shuicheng County
In 2007, the murderer, Lu Fengren, killed Dai Tianyun, a villager in Shizhai Village, the township, at the site of the crime, and then absconded.
In order to hunt down the real murderer, Dai Tianyun's five half-brothers traveled thousands of miles, passing through Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places, and finally captured the murderer in Liuzhou, Guangxi.
▲ [Crowded Sea] poster
The same as [the pursuer] is also adapted from the above case. The difference is that the former is a new stove on the blueprint of "pursuing the murderer" and retelling a new story, while the latter completely follows the process of the cause and effect of the case and pays attention to the presentation of "real people and real events".
Cai Shangjun explores the scale and weight of humanistic care in the real society with a realistic hand, which triggers the audience's deep thinking about human nature
Film: [One Step Away] (2014)
Director: Jiang Wen
Starring: Jiang Wen / Ge You / Zhou Yun
The time of the crime: June 1920
Location: A wheat field on the outskirts of Shanghai
During the Beiyang period, the "Flower Country Election" was in full swing. In the dancers' beauty pageant that year, Wang Lianying, a famous prostitute in the Qinglou, as one of the winners, was in the limelight for a while. But no one expected that wang Lianying would be killed shortly after the election.
After investigation, the police confirmed that the murderer was the gambler Yan Ruisheng. According to his account, he was in debt because of gambling, and in desperation, he had the idea of seeking wealth and killing people.
One day, he asked Wang Lianying to go out for a ride, but then killed him, snatched his belongings, and threw his body into the wild. This is the famous "Yan Ruisheng case".
▲ [One step away] poster
[One step away] On the basis of the adaptation of the original case, there are also many Jiang Wen's imaginations. If the horse walks the day with Yan Ying's ride clip, the dream scene of the sky makes the case fade some cruel parts.
Throughout the film, Jiang Wen uses unique techniques and styles to give the "Yan Ruisheng Case" a certain sense of dreaminess and practical significance, so that many viewers can see the hidden and bold irony through the case.
▲ For Ma Zhaori, after the laughter, the hidden crisis around him will come to the face
Film: [Blood in Search of Plum] (2015)
Director: Weng Ziguang
Starring: Aaron Kwok / Spring Summer / Bai Only / Jin Yanling
The crime occurred on April 27, 2008
Location: Suite 2C, Renfa Building, 39 Shek Kip Wai Street, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
After Wang Jiamei, a 16-year-old girl who came to Hong Kong with her remarried mother, disappeared, the police found that she had been killed by a man named Ding Qitai.
Ding Qitai and Wang Jiamei met online, the two met at a hotel in Sham Shui Po, in the process of having a relationship, Ding Qitai took the opportunity to kill Wang Jiamei and crush the body, throwing part of the bones in the toilet and washing away, and the other part was thrown at the Kowloon Pier.
▲ [Snow In Search of Plum] poster
Although [Blood in Search of Plum] is based on this case, Weng Ziguang does not deliberately recreate the case, but uses a variety of film techniques to re-examine the social issues such as human nature and marginalized groups implied in the incident.
▲ Aaron Kwok played a police detective in the film, revealing the truth of the tragedy step by step
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