Dai yat gaai   2008   Singapore, Hong Kong Rule Number One
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Director:Kelvin Tong
Studio:Boku Films
Writer:Kelvin Tong
IMDb Rating:6.3 (408 votes)
Awards:2 wins
Genre:Action, Horror
Duration:90 min
Languages:Cantonese
IMDb:0918561
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Kelvin Tong  ...  (Director)
Kelvin Tong  ...  (Writer)
 
Shawn Yue  ...  Sgt. Lee Kwok-keung
Ekin Cheng  ...  Inspector Wong
Stephanie Che  ...  Esther
Renee Lee  ...  Siu-man
Fiona Xie  ...  May
Ben Yuen  ...  Chan Fook-Lai
Joe Ng  ...  Composer
Alex Oh  ...  Composer
Kwok-Man Keung  ...  Cinematographer
Wai Chiu Chung  ...  Editor
Comments: Dreams and, presumably, alternate realities frustrate from time to time but a story does manage to tie it together pretty well. It's spooky and creepy enough and the cinematography is good. My only complaint is the Mandarin dub was not done very well. I don't even know why it was done.
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Sufficiently creepy and bloody. I watched this back when it came out and noted that my only complaint with it was the Mandarin dub LOL. A Cantonese version showed up on my doorstep the other day so I gave it a re-watch

This is Tweener Hong Kong, after the glory days and before it became whatever it is today. I generally like tweener shit, shaky ground. Shawn Yue Heyday. I enjoyed a bunch of Shawn's films around this time give or take, and Asian Cinema was generally just better in the aughts (until 2012 to be more specific)

Dreams and, presumably, alternate realities frustrate from time to time but a story does manage to tie this together pretty well. It's spooky and creepy enough and the cinematography is good

No regrets on the re-watch but there's no reason to recommend anyone seek this out, unless you're a Shawn Yue mega fan

Summary: Rookie Sergeant Lee (Shawn Yue) is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong (Ekin Cheng), a police veteran who explains that MAD's role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD's rule number one: there are no ghosts. For every seemingly inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation. MAD begins investigating a string of bizarre teenage suicides. As Lee and Wong follow the clues, they realise something sinister is heading their way...


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