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The Untold Story 2 (人肉叉烧包II之天诛地灭)

The Untold Story 2 (人肉叉烧包II之天诛地灭, also rendered 人肉叉烧包II之天诛地灭) is a 1998 Hong Kong Category III horror film directed by Ng Yiu-Kuen (吴耀权) and produced by Danny Lee (李修贤)¹^•². It stars Paulyn Sun (孙佳君), Emotion Cheung (张锦程), and Anthony Chau-Sang Wong (黄秋生), with Yeung Fan (杨梵) and Helena Law (罗兰) in supporting roles³. Although marketed as a sequel to Herman Yau's The Untold Story (1993), it shares no plot or characters with that film beyond Wong's presence, and it draws instead on a real 1993 murder case in Tai Po⁴^•⁵.

Key fact	Detail
Original title	人肉叉烧包II之天诛地灭 (Yan yuk cha siu bau II: Tin jue dei mit)³
Release	20 June 1998, Hong Kong³^•²
Director / producer	Ng Yiu-Kuen; produced by Danny Lee¹^•²
Writer	Law Kam-Fai (罗锦辉)²
Cast	Paulyn Sun, Emotion Cheung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Yeung Fan, Helena Law³
Runtime / language	91 minutes; Cantonese³
Rating	Hong Kong Category III⁶
Basis	The 1993 Tai Po Plover Cove Garden burning-body case⁴

Spoilers

Plot

Cheung (Emotion Cheung) and his wife Kuen (Yeung Fan) run a roast meat shop (烧腊店) in Hong Kong. Their marriage is unhappy: Cheung cannot satisfy Kuen sexually, and she takes a lover and treats him with contempt⁷. When Kuen's cousin Fung (Paulyn Sun) arrives from mainland China and works at the shop, Cheung and Fung begin an affair⁷.

Fung, shaped by a brutal trauma in her past, is mentally unstable and obsessively attached to Cheung. She murders Kuen, and the body is dismembered, roasted, and served to customers of the shop to destroy the evidence⁷^•⁸. Officer Lazyboots (Anthony Wong), a regular customer and neighborhood policeman, senses that something is wrong and investigates the disappearance, nearly dying at Fung's hands before the killers are brought to justice⁷. In the film's final stretch Fung's obsession spirals further and she turns on Cheung as well⁴.

Relationship to The Untold Story (1993)

The 1993 original, directed by Herman Yau, was one of the defining films of Hong Kong's Category III wave, and Wong won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for playing its killer⁸^•⁷. The sequel keeps the brand and the roast-meat premise but tells an unrelated story with new characters, in the manner of other in-name-only Hong Kong sequels such as the Raped by an Angel series⁵^•⁹.

Wong's role reverses his original part: instead of the murderer, he plays the meddlesome but decent Officer Lazyboots, a rare good-guy turn for an actor then strongly identified with Category III villainy⁷^•¹⁰. The Cinespot review attributes his heavy casting to the award his performance in the first film had earned⁷.

The real case

The film adapts the 1993 burning-body case at Plover Cove Garden (宝湖花园) in Tai Po⁴. In the real events, a man surnamed Law ran a roast meat shop in Tai Po and from 1989 had an affair with a woman surnamed Chin, thirteen years his senior; he passed her off to his wife as a relative and set her up managing one of the shops, which became their meeting place⁴. On 5 July 1993, angry that her shop's license was being revoked, Chin confronted the wife in the couple's flat, bound her to a chair and strangled her. After scalding herself with hot oil at the shop, she decided to burn the body, doused it in alcohol in the bathtub and set it alight, then dismembered it; in court she described the dismemberment as no harder than chopping roast meat⁴.

The jury could not reach a verdict, and after two retrials the 46-year-old killer was convicted only of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison. The victim's family sought judicial review twice, and more than ten thousand members of the public signed a petition, without changing the outcome⁴. The film follows the real case closely, with three main changes: the mistress is written as a relative newly arrived from mainland China, the dismemberment and burning are carried out jointly by the man and the woman, and the woman ultimately tries to kill the man⁴. The same case had already been filmed in Untold Story 2 precursor fashion by Raped by an Angel-adjacent crime films: the Cinespot review notes the case was previously treated in Human Pork Chop (1993) and Neighbor Deceased (1994)⁷.

Reception and home video

The film is a Category III release, the Hong Kong rating restricted to adults aged 18 and over, and carries explicit nudity and violence alongside broad comedy⁶^•⁵. Reviewers have generally described it as a slower, less gory affair than the 1993 original, closer to an erotic thriller with themes of obsession and jealousy, with Paulyn Sun's performance as the unstable Fung frequently singled out⁵^•¹⁰. The Cinespot review was harsher, rating it 3 out of 10 and criticizing the balance of erotic content, slapstick, and a thin story⁷. On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.7 out of 10 from 577 votes³.

Vinegar Syndrome released the film on a limited edition Blu-ray, bringing it to North American collectors alongside other Hong Kong Category III titles such as Ebola Syndrome¹¹^•¹⁰.

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026