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"excerpt": "The Untold Story (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽) is a 1993 Hong Kong Category III crime-horror film by Herman Yau, starring Anthony Wong as killer Wong Chi Hang, based on the unsolved 1985 Macau Eight Immortals Restaurant murders; it won Wong the HK Film Award for Best Actor.",
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"markdown": "# The Untold Story (八仙饭店之人肉叉烧饱)\n\n**The Untold Story** (八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽, also written 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包) is a 1993 Hong Kong Category III crime-horror film directed by Herman Yau and produced by Danny Lee, starring Anthony Wong as the murderer and restaurant proprietor Wong Chi Hang. Loosely based on the 1985 Eight Immortals Restaurant murders in Macau, it follows detectives who investigate a restaurant famous for its pork buns after severed human limbs wash up on a beach.[1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/) • [2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) • [3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1) The film became a commercial hit, won Anthony Wong the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, and is regarded as one of the defining releases of Hong Kong's Category III cinema.[4](https://www.scmp.com/article/246785/roast-human-flesh-menu-untold-storys-finger-licking-second-helping) • [5](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%99%E9%A5%AD%E5%BA%97%E4%B9%8B%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%83%A7%E5%8C%85/10941382?fromModule=tashuo-article_bottom-lemma) • [1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒飽 (also written 八仙飯店之人肉叉燒包), English title The Untold Story[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630) |\n| Release | Hong Kong premiere 13 May 1993; 96 minutes; Cantonese and Mandarin[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630) |\n| Rating | Category III, Hong Kong's adults-only classification, comparable to the US NC-17[7](https://pophorror.com/herman-yaus-the-untold-story-1993-movie-review/) |\n| Hong Kong box office | HK$15,763,018[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630) |\n| Award | Best Actor, 13th Hong Kong Film Awards (1994), for Anthony Wong[5](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%99%E9%A5%AD%E5%BA%97%E4%B9%8B%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%83%A7%E5%8C%85/10941382?fromModule=tashuo-article_bottom-lemma) |\n| Basis | The 1985 Eight Immortals Restaurant family murders in Macau[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1) |\n| Principal cast | Anthony Wong (Wong Chi Hang), Danny Lee (Officer Lee), Emily Kwan (Bo), Julie Lee (Pearl)[1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nThe story opens with Wong Chi Hang fleeing Hong Kong police, who want him for murder, and taking a job as a cook at the [Eight Immortals](https://www.edgepedia.org/eight-immortals) restaurant in Macau.[8](https://horrorthriller.com/Movies/STU/untold.html) After being caught cheating at mahjong, he kills the restaurant's owner and the owner's family and takes over the business.[8](https://horrorthriller.com/Movies/STU/untold.html) The investigation begins when dismembered limbs wash ashore, leading detectives to the restaurant.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993)\n\nThe film's structure alternates between the police investigation and the killer. Its tone shifts from broad comedy in the early sections, in which the bumbling, womanizing officers are played for laughs, to sustained horror in the later sections.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) After Wong is captured, the police, lacking evidence to charge him, have him beaten in jail and subjected to further abuse until he breaks down and confesses in flashback to killing the entire family, including five children and their grandmother, and dismembering the bodies.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) He then slashes his wrists in his cell and dies, and the charges go unpursued because of his death.[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) • [9](https://www.cinnamondb.com/movie/the-untold-story-1993)\n\n## Production and context\n\nThe film was directed by Herman Yau, written by Wing-Kin Lau and Kam-Fai Law, and produced by Danny Lee, who also plays the lead detective, Officer Lee.[1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/) • [2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) It was produced in Hong Kong by Uniden Investments Limited, with Kwan Hung Ying Yip Yau Haan Gung Shut as the production company.[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630) The Chinese title refers to the human-meat roast pork buns (cha siu bao) at the center of the story.[4](https://www.scmp.com/article/246785/roast-human-flesh-menu-untold-storys-finger-licking-second-helping)\n\n**Category III cinema.** The film carries Hong Kong's Category III rating, the classification restricted to viewers aged 18 and over, which PopHorror describes as the equivalent of an American NC-17.[7](https://pophorror.com/herman-yaus-the-untold-story-1993-movie-review/) It is counted among the most notorious and most revered Category III releases, and its success helped open a wave of Hong Kong true-crime films.[8](https://horrorthriller.com/Movies/STU/untold.html) • [7](https://pophorror.com/herman-yaus-the-untold-story-1993-movie-review/) A Chinese-language retrospective account credits it with popularizing the psychotic-killer figure in Chinese-language popular film and notes that it resonated widely in Southeast Asia.[5](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%99%E9%A5%AD%E5%BA%97%E4%B9%8B%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%83%A7%E5%8C%85/10941382?fromModule=tashuo-article_bottom-lemma)\n\n## The real case\n\nThe film is adapted from the 1985 Eight Immortals Restaurant murders in Macau, in which the restaurant's owner Cheng Lam and his family of eight disappeared and human remains were found on a beach.[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1) The film's protagonist Wong Chi Hang is modeled on the real suspect Wong Chi-hang (黃志恆), who was arrested and, in the film's account, confessed under interrogation to killing the Cheng family over a gambling dispute and selling their remains as pork buns.[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)\n\nThe real case was never resolved. The most widely reported version rests on testimony from a prison mate of the suspect, who said Wong had admitted killing nine members of the Cheng family and one employee over gambling debts; that testimony emerged only after Wong's suicide and could not be verified. Complete remains of the ten victims were never found, Wong's suicide note claimed he had confessed only under exhausted coercion, and the claim that the bodies were made into pork buns remains a rumor.[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1) The case is still counted among Hong Kong and Macau's most famous \"strange cases,\" and the film remains the best-known adaptation of it.[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe film was a commercial hit in Hong Kong, earning HK$15,763,018.[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630) The South China Morning Post attributed the hit to its sensationalism and Anthony Wong's intense performance, which won the Best Actor statuette at the Hong Kong Film Awards.[4](https://www.scmp.com/article/246785/roast-human-flesh-menu-untold-storys-finger-licking-second-helping) Wong's win at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1994 is noted in Chinese-language accounts as making him the first Category III film actor to take the Best Actor prize.[10](https://www.kff.tw/storage/files/2025/2025%20%E9%AB%98%E9%9B%84%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1%E7%AF%80%20%E7%AF%80%E7%9B%AE%E5%B0%88%E5%88%8A.pdf)\n\nCritical responses have divided over the film's tonal mixture. On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a 73% Tomatometer from 4 reviews; James Mudge of easternKicks.com called it \"a brutal, ruthless and skilfully made film that demands recognition,\" while Rob Rector of Film Threat wrote that Yau \"struggled to craft two wildly different films here\" edited together \"in a Frankenstein's monster fashion that never fully clicks.\"[2](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993) Reviewers consistently single out Wong's performance: Cult Film Index describes him as \"sweaty, twitchy, and absolutely terrifying,\" and Frank's Movie Log praises the restraint with which Yau films the murders, showing the aftermath rather than the blows.[1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/) • [11](https://www.franksmovielog.com/reviews/the-untold-story-1993/)\n\n## Distribution and legacy\n\nThe film's graphic content delayed its release in some markets. In Japan, its first theatrical showing came only in August 2015, in the retrospective series \"Super Crazy: Extreme Crime Chronicles\" of 1990s Hong Kong violence films at Human Trust Cinema Shibuya.[12](https://eiga.com/movie/82340/) In the United States it circulated unrated, and it has been released on Blu-ray by Unearthed Films, with streaming availability on Tubi and Plex.[8](https://horrorthriller.com/Movies/STU/untold.html) • [1](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/) A British 88 Films Blu-ray edition appeared in 2023.[6](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630)\n\nWong and Yau reunited in 1996 on *[Ebola Syndrome](https://www.edgepedia.org/ebola-syndrome)*, which keeps a similar level of violence and adds pitch-black comedy throughout.[11](https://www.franksmovielog.com/reviews/the-untold-story-1993/) A sequel carrying the \"Untold Story\" name followed Wong five years later, though by then the human cha siu bao of the Chinese title no longer appeared in the story.[4](https://www.scmp.com/article/246785/roast-human-flesh-menu-untold-storys-finger-licking-second-helping) The film's notoriety has kept the Eight Immortals Restaurant case in public memory; it resurfaced in Hong Kong discussion after the 2023 Abby Choi murder case, which drew comparisons to the 1985 killings.[3](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)\n\n## References\n\n1. [The Untold Story (1993) – Cult Film Index](https://cultfilmindex.com/movie/the-untold-story/)\n2. [The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story (1993) – Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bat_sin_fan_dim_ji_yan_yuk_cha_siu_bau_1993)\n3. [蔡天鳳案｜澳門38年前傳「賣人肉叉燒包」真相成謎 遭改編成電影 – HK01](https://www.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%8B%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/871351/%E8%94%A1%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%B3%E6%A1%88-%E6%BE%B3%E9%96%8038%E5%B9%B4%E5%89%8D%E5%82%B3-%E8%B3%A3%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%87%92%E5%8C%85-%E7%9C%9F%E7%9B%B8%E6%88%90%E8%AC%8E-%E9%81%AD%E6%94%B9%E7%B7%A8%E6%88%90%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)\n4. [Roast human flesh off menu for Untold Story's finger-licking second helping – South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/article/246785/roast-human-flesh-menu-untold-storys-finger-licking-second-helping)\n5. [八仙饭店之人肉叉烧包 – 百度百科](https://wapbaike.baidu.com/item/%E5%85%AB%E4%BB%99%E9%A5%AD%E5%BA%97%E4%B9%8B%E4%BA%BA%E8%82%89%E5%8F%89%E7%83%A7%E5%8C%85/10941382?fromModule=tashuo-article_bottom-lemma)\n6. [八仙饭店之人肉叉烧饱 – HKFACT](https://www.hkfact.com/movie/7630)\n7. [Herman Yau's 'The Untold Story' (1993) – Movie Review, PopHorror](https://pophorror.com/herman-yaus-the-untold-story-1993-movie-review/)\n8. [The Untold Story movie review – HorrorThriller.com](https://horrorthriller.com/Movies/STU/untold.html)\n9. [The Untold Story (1993) – Cinnamon DB](https://www.cinnamondb.com/movie/the-untold-story-1993)\n10. [2025 高雄電影節節目導彳](https://www.kff.tw/storage/files/2025/2025%20%E9%AB%98%E9%9B%84%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1%E7%AF%80%20%E7%AF%80%E7%9B%AE%E5%B0%88%E5%88%8A.pdf)\n11. [The Untold Story movie review (1993) – Frank's Movie Log](https://www.franksmovielog.com/reviews/the-untold-story-1993/)\n12. 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