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Mr. Vampire II

Mr. Vampire II, (Chinese: 殭屍家族) also known as Mr. Vampire Part 2, is a 1986 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Ricky Lau, starring Yuen Biao, Moon Lee and Lam Ching-ying, and produced by Sammo Hung. The film is the second of a series of five films directed by Ricky Lau in the Mr. Vampire franchise. Mr. Vampire and its sequels were released as part of the jiangshi cinematic boom in Hong Kong during the 1980s.[1] The Chinese title of the film literally translates to "Vampire Family".

Mr. Vampire II
Original Hong Kong film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese殭屍家族
Simplified Chinese僵尸家族
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāngshī Jiāzú
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingGoeng1 Si1 Gaa1 Zuk6
Directed byRicky Lau
Written byBarry Wong
Produced bySammo Hung
StarringYuen Biao
Moon Lee
Lam Ching-ying
Billy Lau
Chung Fat
Agassi Wang
Bowie Wu
CinematographyAndrew Lau
Cho Wai-kei
Peter Ngor
Arthur Wong
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music byAnders Nelsson
Alastair Monteith-Hodge
Stephen Shing
Cheng Kwok-kong
Production
companies
Bo Ho Films Co., Ltd.
Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 15 August 1986 (1986-08-15)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$17,072,137

In the film, an archaeologist discovers a trio of immobilized jiangshi, and hopes to profit from his discovery. All three jiangshi are soon revived. A failed attempt to kill the two adult jiangshi results in their escape.

Plot

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Kwok, an archaeologist, brings his two students with him in search of ancient artifacts. They stumble upon a cave and discover three jiangshi (Chinese "hopping" vampires) — an adult male, an adult female, and a male child. The vampires are immobilized because they have Chinese talismans stuck to their foreheads. Kwok brings them back to his lab and decides to sell the boy vampire in the black market.

While transporting the boy vampire, Kwok accidentally strips the talisman off its forehead and breaks the charm. The creature awakens and escapes. It enters a house by chance and befriends a little girl, who mistakes the young vampire for an illegal immigrant boy. Meanwhile, back in the lab, one of Kwok's students mischievously removes the talismans from the adult vampires and revives them. The vampires start to "hop" around and attack people. It took the three men much trouble to put them back to rest temporarily.

One of Kwok's students was bitten by the male vampire while fighting it, so he goes to see Dr Lam for treatment. Lam recognises the bite marks and realises that there are vampires running loose in town. Together with his daughter Gigi and his prospective son-in-law Yen, Lam embarks on a quest to destroy the vampires.

Lam tells Yen and Gigi to secretly follow Kwok's student back to the lab and find the vampires. While Gigi goes to notify the police of their discovery, Yen accidentally removes the talismans on the vampires' foreheads and awaken them. Luckily, Lam and Gigi show up and help him. After a long fight, they put the vampires to sleep using sedatives from the lab. The police arrive right after and take the two vampires to the morgue in the police station.

Lam and Yen sneak into the morgue and try to kill the vampires with a wooden sword but fail. Kwok and his students also arrive at the morgue because his student needs to get the blood of one of the vampires to cure himself after being bitten. Lam and Yen pretend to be corpses while Kwok and his students carry the vampires out. They put the bodies in the back of a truck while Lam and Yen sneak into the driver seat and hijack the truck. Later, they are stopped by police officers at a roadblock and the two vampires escape. The boy vampire sees the two adult vampires escaping on the news and lets out a loud cry that alerts the vampires to his location.

Lam and Yen hear on their radio that there are vampire sightings and they arrive at the children's house. With the help of the police, Lam and Yen kill the two adult vampires. However, after seeing how the children have grown fond of the boy vampire, Yen decides to inject it with anesthetics instead of killing it. He dresses up the vampire in normal clothing and sneaks it out of the house without the police noticing. Kwok arrives and falls to the ground. His students stand behind him, revealing that they have become vampires after failing to get a sample of vampire blood to cure themselves.

Cast

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  • Lam Ching-ying as Dr Lam Ching-ying (林正英), a physician who is also skilled in Chinese supernatural arts
  • Yuen Biao as Yen (夏友仁), a reporter and Lam's prospective son-in-law
  • Moon Lee as Gigi, Lam's daughter
  • Chung Fat as Professor Kwok Tun-wong (郭敦煌), the archaeologist who discovers the vampires
  • Billy Lau as Chicken, Kwok's student
  • Ka Lee as Sashimi, Kwok's student
  • Agassi Wang as the female adult vampire
  • Cheung Wing-cheung as the male adult vampire
  • Hoh Kin-wai as the boy vampire
  • Hon To-yue as Chia-chia, the girl who befriends the boy vampire
  • Choi Man-gam as Chia-chia's brother
  • Bowie Wu as Mr Hu, Chia-chia's father
  • Wu Ma as Mr Hu's neighbour
  • Hsiao Ho as a lab technician
  • James Tien as a police officer
  • Cho Tat-wah as the police chief
  • Manfred Wong as a coroner
  • Yuen Miu as a policeman
  • Stanley Fung as an archaeologist
  • Ban Yun-sang as a policeman at the traffic checkpoint
  • Chow Gam-kong as a policeman
  • Yiu Yau-hung as a fireman
  • Lee Chi-git as Ping
  • Lam Gwok-hung
  • Yeung Ming

Home media

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VHS

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Release date Country Classification Publisher Format Language Subtitles Notes Ref.
19 June 1998 United States Unknown Tai Seng Video NTSC Cantonese English [2]
24 January 2000 United Kingdom 15 Made in Hong Kong PAL Cantonese English [3]

Laserdisc

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Release date Country Classification Publisher Catalog no. Format Language Subtitles Notes Ref.
Unknown Japan N/A Pony Video CLV / NTSC Cantonese Japanese Audio mono [4]

VCD

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Release date Country Classification Publisher Format Language Subtitles Notes Ref.
Unknown Hong Kong N/A Megastar (HK)/ Media Asia NTSC Cantonese English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs
5 December 2003 China N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC Mandarin None 2VCDs [5]
21 September 2005 Taiwan N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC Mandarin Traditional Chinese 2VCDs [6]
11 July 2008 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales (HK) NTSC Cantonese, Mandarin English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs [7]

DVD

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Release date Country Classification Publisher Format Region Language Sound Subtitles Notes Ref.
Unknown Hong Kong N/A Megastar NTSC ALL Cantonese, English Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean Anamorphic widescreen transfer [8][9]
Unknown Japan N/A Universal Pictures Japan NTSC 2 Cantonese, Japanese Dolby Digital mono Japanese Digitally re-mastered box-set [10]
3 August 2001 Hong Kong N/A Deltamac (HK) NTSC ALL Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese [11]
5 December 2003 China N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC ALL Mandarin Unknown English, Simplified Chinese [12]
19 February 2004 France N/A HK Video PAL 2 Cantonese Dolby Digital French Box-set [13]
4 July 2006 Taiwan N/A Catalyst Logic NTSC 3 Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.0 English, Traditional Chinese [14]
11 October 2009 Japan N/A Geneon Universal Entertainment NTSC 2 Cantonese Unknown Japanese Digitally Remastered Edition [15]
16 April 2009 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales (HK) NTSC 2 Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese [16]
21 December 2012 Japan N/A Paramount Home/ Entertainment Japan NTSC 2 Cantonese, Japanese Dolby Digital Japanese Digitally re-mastered [17]

Blu-ray

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Release date Country Classification Publisher Format Region Language Sound Subtitles Notes Ref.
26 July 2011 Hong Kong N/A CMS Media Limited (HK) NTSC A Cantonese, Mandarin 6.1, 7.1, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital EX(TM) / THX Surround EX(TM) English, Traditional Chinese [18]
21 December 2012 Japan N/A Paramount Home Entertainment Japan NTSC A Cantonese, Japanese Japanese Digitally re-mastered [19]

References

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