Yi boh laai beng duk (1996)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Herman Yau

Writer:

Ting Chau (writer)

Release Date:

15 June 1996 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

A restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.

Plot Keywords:

Restaurant | Murder | Virus | Africa | Meat

Cast

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang	...	Kai San
Yeung Ming Wan	...	Yeung
Fui-On Shing	...	Annoyed Husband
Wong Tsui-ling
Miu-Ying Chan	...	Har
Meng Lo	...	The Boss
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Edward Corbett
Lori Shannon
Michael Tam
Bobby Yip	...	Short Ugly Triad

Directed by
Herman Yau

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ting Chau		writer

Produced by
Jing Wong	....	producer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jo Katsaras	....	costume supervisor

Production Companies

• Jing's Production

Distributors

• Gala Film Distribution (1996) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• Golden Harvest Company (1996) (worldwide) (all media)
• Universe Laser & Video Co. Ltd. (1996) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
• Discotek Media (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Siren Visual Entertainment (2006) (Australia) (DVD)
• Tai Seng Video Marketing (1996) (USA) (VHS)

Special Effects

• Cubists

Other Companies

• Cine Art Laboratory  film processing
• Hong Kong Equipment Rental Co.  camera and lighting equipment provided by
• Mandarin Laboratory (International) Ltd.  subtitle
• Tai Fung (Tsu's) Co. Ltd.  film supplied by

Also Known As:

Ebola Syndrome (Hong Kong: English title)
Yibola bing du (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:MA | France:-16 (DVD) | New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:(Banned) | South Korea:18 | Hong Kong:III | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Jing's Production

Quotes:

Unknown: What are you doing?
Kai San: I am killing them, is that a problem?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Outbreak (1995)

Gross but not that disturbing.

I've always loved movies with Anthony Wong in them. Especially his cat 3 epics. Such as this obviously and the excellent untold story. In this Wong plays a lowly restaurant worker named Kai. Who's practically a slave. He gets all the lousy jobs. Wong like to have sex with his bosses wives though. This obviously doesn't go down very well when they find out so he moves job. In one instance when Kai is discovered practically raping the bosses wife, boss man is angry. He threatens to castrate Kai, things get out of hand and Kai ends up slaughtering his boss and his wife. Though not his daughter. Next we meet Kai 10 yeras later. Cutting up REAL frogs in grotesque detail. He is still the same low life restaurant worker, but he's moved. Anyway long story short Kai catches the ebola syndrome and becomes a carrier. I'm sure you can imagine what follows so I won't ruin it for you here. I'll just say that their are some scenes of extreme gore, although it never really feels disturbing as the scenes leading up to these events are always comedic. This is a fun film and definitely more of a gross out comedy than straight up horror. Whatever it is its great