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From the Great Beyond

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english title From the Great Beyond
aka Those merry souls
year1985
countryHong-Kong


cast & crew

director LAU Kar Wing
actorKent CHENG Jak-Si - 鄭則士
WU Ma - 午馬
LAU Kar Wing
Elaine KAM Yin-Ling
CHUN Wong
Billy CHING Sau-Yat
CHIN Ka-Lok - 钱嘉乐
Stanley FUNG Shui-Fan
Billy LAU Nam-Kwong - 樓南光
Richard NG Yiu-Hon - 吳耀漢
Fruit CHAN Goh - 陳果
LEE Chi-Yip
PANG Yun Cheung
Sammo HUNG Kam-Bo - 洪金寶
YAM Ho
YUEN Biao - 元彪
Lily LI Li-Li - 李莉莉
Eric TSANG Chi-Wai - 曾志偉
Moon LEE Choi Fong - 李賽鳳
BAN Yun-Sang
FUNG King-Man
CHUNG Fat
LAM Ching-Ying - 林正英
producerSammo HUNG Kam-Bo - 洪金寶
action director LAM Ching-Ying - 林正英
LAU Kar Wing
YUEN Wah - 元華
YUEN Biao - 元彪
scriptwriter WONG Ying
SZETO Cheuk-Han


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distributorGolden Harvest


synopsis

Ng and Lung are two good friends and in the same profession as stuntmen. Little does Lung realize that his own father is a messenger of death. Lung's father is ordered to collect Ng's soul, he purposefully fails. Ng lives on but doesn't know that Lung's father has shortened his own life to make amends. Lung is in great grief. An artist called Lo Ngan comforts him and they eventually fall in love. A series of strange things happen, Lung discovers his own horror that he has inherited his father's "job". He is even ordered to collect his lover's soul. A rebellion takes place...

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