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The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包, 1993) is a Hong Kong horror-crime film directed by Herman Yau — watch online on iFILM. The tagline says it plainly: "Based, unfortunately, on real events." What happened in Macau in 1986 became one of the region's most disturbing criminal cases, and this Category III production does not flinch in depicting it.
A bag of chopped human remains washes up on a Macau beach. Police detectives — played with dark comedic energy against the brutal subject matter — trace the evidence back to a pork bun restaurant and its unsettling owner. Anthony Wong plays the proprietor, a man who acquired the business through debt and then systematically removed everyone who might talk. The popular menu item becomes its own grim punchline.
Anthony Wong took home the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for this role. The film sits at the hard edge of exploitation cinema, where the horror comes not from the supernatural but from a real person and a real address. Stream The Untold Story online on iFILM.
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