In Love with the Dead
2007 · 97 MIN · IMDB 5.4 · 384 VOTES · DIR. Danny Pang Fat
Overview
In Hong Kong, the successful designer Ming lives with his beloved girlfriend Wai Luk and her younger sister who loves ghost story comic books. When Wai is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Ming's life is turned upside-down, and he sacrifices his career to spend more time with Wai. He finds a new job in a lower position and out of the blue he finds that his new boss, Chu Fong, was his old friend in elementary school. When Wai gives up chemotherapy she decides to treat herself in accordance with the traditional Chinese medicine guided by her aunt. She has a weird behavior at home, and her frightened sister insists that she is a ghost. Meanwhile, Ming gets closer to Fong, who is a successful entrepreneur but a woman needy of love. During a trip to Peking, they have one night stand. Over the next days, Ming and Fong have a love affair and Ming believes that Wai is a spirit resolving her issues to move to the next level.
Dialogue Timeline — 691 lines
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00:00:30 Miss Luk, you are diagnosed as having pancreatic cancer.
00:05:40 For what?
00:09:46 I begged a miracle-working herbal doctor...
00:12:12 Will you leave me?
00:14:35 It's not true.
00:17:08 An old colleague?
00:21:15 Eat...
00:24:01 How can I be mad at somebody who is with so much happiness?
00:27:54 Hug me.
00:31:49 Why?
00:33:38 I don't want to stay in the hospital...
00:36:42 Take a rest after taking medicine.
00:40:51 She acts like the ghost stories I read.
00:45:20 Let's toast to tomorrow's deal.
00:48:32 How is Wai?
00:52:36 Yes. Of course she is happy.
00:56:27 He needs to take care of somebody else.
01:00:16 I accidentally fell down the stairs and hurt myself.
01:02:00 In the accident, the tram...
01:09:55 just look like the ghosts in the horror fictions.
01:15:49 there's no love.
01:19:18 He said the cancerous cells have been suppressed.
01:23:07 I can't do it.
01:27:02 Give me the phone.