Visible Secret

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Visible Secret
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Traditional Chinese 幽靈人間
Simplified Chinese 幽灵人间
Hanyu Pinyin Yōu Líng Rén Jiān
Jyutping Jau1 Ling4 Jan4 Gaan1
Directed by Ann Hui
Written byAbe Kwong
Produced byThomas Chung
John Chong
Solon So
Ann Hui
Abe Kwong
Starring Eason Chan
Shu Qi
Anthony Wong
Sam Lee
James Wong
Wayne Lai
Kara Hui
Tony Liu
Cheung Tat-ming
CinematographyArthur Wong
Edited byKwong Chi-leung
Music byTommy Wai
Release date
  • 1 June 2001 (2001-06-01)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$8,876,319

Visible Secret is a 2001 Hong Kong horror comedy film directed by Ann Hui, starring Eason Chan, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Sam Lee, James Wong, Wayne Lai, Kara Hui, Tony Liu and Cheung Tat-ming.

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Plot

Peter, a hairdresser, meets June, a nurse, at the disco one night and she becomes his girlfriend. She claims to have a spiritual "third eye" which allows her to see ghosts. As they become closer to each other, Peter starts to encounter visions of ghosts. After a vacation at a holiday resort, June befriends a boy in the neighbourhood. One day, Peter and June visit the boy at his house, and Peter is horrified to see that the boy's mother is under attack by two vicious ghosts, who are fighting for possession of her body. The boy is later found dead. Meanwhile, Peter's father commits suicide in hospital under strange circumstances.

Peter becomes suspicious of June and wants to break up with her, even when she tries to warn him that he is being targeted by a "headless ghost". When Peter's best friend, Simon, tells him that he was indeed possessed, Peter regains his trust in June and they start unraveling the mystery together by tracking down details of a horrific accident that happened at Sai Wan two decades ago. Peter's father had accidentally bumped into a man and caused the man to fall onto a railway, where he was knocked down by an incoming tram and was decapitated. The man is the "headless ghost" and he is seeking revenge on Peter and his father.

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Release

Visible Secret was released in Hong Kong on 1 June 2001. In the Philippines, the film was released by Media Asia Films on 21 August 2003. [1]

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References

  1. "Opens Tomorrow!". Philippine Daily Inquirer . The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. 20 August 2003. p. B9. Retrieved 12 September 2022. From the master of horror comes a new chilling tale of terror