Tales of a Eunuch

Name: Tales of a Eunuch
Director: Hua Shan
Released: 1983
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Linda Chu, Ku Feng, Li-Ling Liao

1983 · 89 MIN · IMDB 5.3 · 71 VOTES · DIR. Hua Shan

Overview

The story follows a "loveable" rascal as he gambles and gets into various bits of trouble with outlaws and rebels. He eventually gets into a situation where he has to impersonate the eunuch servant of an elderly eunuch who is an evil martial art master. This gets the rascal involved with the emperor who is studying martial arts. The whole movie revolves around a quest for all the copies of a special Buddhist text.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,460 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:41 "Jiu Yi Hall"

00:04:47 Three fours

00:08:26 You're so idle

00:11:17 I want to give him some water

00:15:01 Now that I think of it...

00:19:13 You must be tired of living

00:23:11 You are too cruel

00:27:46 so you could befriend Wan Yau Do and his lot

00:32:15 He knows how to fight

00:34:22 - Go inside - Go

00:38:02 You wanted to strike the emperor

00:40:38 He knew it was the emperor long ago

00:44:48 None of them dare to call me slut

00:47:55 He is a good wrestler

00:53:13 Eunuch Guei

00:56:47 ...saying it stinks

01:00:26 surreptitiously spit it in the bowl

01:06:57 If I find out so much as a word is said about me

01:09:57 Farewell

01:15:17 I found the Forty Two Chapters of the Creed

01:18:51 Although we're good friends...

01:23:07 You've improved

01:25:45 I'll depend on you this time

01:29:15 Well, you can be a whore!

Cast & Characters

Yue Wong Chia-Hui Liu Linda Chu Ku Feng Eunuch Hai Li-Ling Liao Tsui-Ling Yu Mau 18's sister Marilyn Wong Cho-See Tien-Hsiang Lung Ngo Siu Bo Susan Yam-Yam Shaw Feng Kuan

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,460

Dialogue density16.4 lines / min

First line00:01:41

Final line01:29:15

Production Record

DirectorHua Shan

LanguageChinese

IMDb votes71