Mortuary Blues
1990 · 92 MIN · IMDB 5.8 · 200 VOTES · DIR. Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai
Overview
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......
Dialogue Timeline — 988 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:13 They say you always reap what you sow 300 years ago your village ancestor
00:04:54 Shih?
00:08:00 Have you got any tip-off?
00:10:21 Lin, l paid you to teach my son not to chat with him
00:12:35 Still eighteen? Plus two years
00:14:57 Something wrong with this troupe, as l expected
00:17:36 You can go in now
00:20:57 l can't, it's coming
00:23:41 This is the treasure map of the pagoda lnside is the key of entry
00:26:39 lt really does
00:30:05 Don't mispronounce, should be hunchback
00:33:00 Damn you. Let's go
00:35:58 Don't be so passionate
00:39:43 Lin, help me
00:44:50 My finger!
00:47:47 Take it for your sweetheart
00:50:31 l was away for the toilet and returned
00:52:58 Plans? To marry your mammy to be your daddy
00:56:24 Yes, sir
01:01:09 To frolic in water with her?
01:08:56 That's too bad for the balls
01:13:26 l stare, holding a lute alone
01:15:51 l give up
01:23:49 Let me Don't
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed988
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:01:13
Final line01:23:49
Production Record
DirectorJeffrey Lau Chun-Wai
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes200