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Stealing the Beauty's Corpse at Night (1955)

Name: Stealing the Beauty's Corpse at Night
Director: Hsieh Hung
Genre: Horror, History, Drama
Released: 1955-09-14
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Cast: Law Yim-Hing, Wong Chiu-Miu, Leung Siu-Kam, Lau Hak-Suen, Cheng Wai-Sum

IMDb 0.01h 28mHorror History Drama

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Plot Summary

It is a simple story with a deep meaning. When the beautiful chanteuse Hung (Law Yim-hing) is forced to marry Commander Lau (Lau Hark-suen), her brother (Cheng Wai-sum) interferes but is brutally beaten to death. Hung also falls to her death when she tries to escape. The siblings are only hastily buried in a coffin home, which is haunted soon afterwards. Hung's lover Wong (Wong Chiu-mo) later sneaks into the haunted house hoping to see her for one last time; Lau, meanwhile, insists on inspecting the coffin home and the corpses to prove that ghosts do not exist…The film creates an eerie and uncanny atmosphere with its well-designed camera angles, sound and editing. The haunting looks of the two ghost characters are a nod to Hong Kong's typically told horror stories.