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Tales from the Dark is a 2013 Hong Kong portmanteau horror film directed by Simon Yam, Lee Chingai, and Fruit Chan. The film is split into three stories based on short stories by Lilian Lee. The first film is titled Stolen Goods directed by and stars Simon Yam as a man in Hong Kong who has recently lost his job and decides to make money by stealing funeral urns and blackmailing the families into buying them back from him. The second story is directed by Lee and is titled A Word in the Palm . The film is about a fortune teller played by Tony Leung Kafai, who retired from his job to study music, but retains the ability to see ghosts. The final film is directed by Chan and titled Jing Zhe . The film stars Josephine Koo who is asked to beat up an unusual woman Dada Chan to beat up an entire group of strangers.
The films story was adapted from the second book in Lilian Lees fivevolume book series that were originally published in newspaper form. The films directors included Fruit Chan and Lee Chingai who have not directed many films in the past decade and Simon Yam who made his directorial debut with this film.Derek Elley of Film Business Asia described the film as a portmanteau horror film and felt it was similar in tone and style to 1980s and early 1990s Hong Kong horror films. The Hollywood Reporter echoed this statement, referring to it as a film that harkens back to the glory days of Hong Kong horror in the 1980s. ........
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