After neglecting my friends' shocking comments about this movie the last couple years, thinking that it is just some CAT III cheesy cheap movie, that only focuses on violence and sex, I finally had a chance to watch Bun Man: The Untold Story (1993), starring Anthony Wong.
Boy.... I was wrong. The movie was more than that. Yes, it has violence, in fact extreme gore and violence but it was delivered with top notch acting that makes the movie very traumaticly believable.
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I have to tell you, I was not prepared for what I had witnessed on my TV screen. This movie is perhaps, one of the most insane, gory, sadistic, bloody, cruel, pyschotic, disturbed, shocking, violence, and at the same extremely despressing movie I have ever seen in my life (if not the most).
To make the movie's violence impact even more eerie is the fact that it is based on true story in Macau during the late 70s. Basically the movie tells a story about a weird, peculiar dimsum shop owner in Macau, who at the same time was also a skillful butcher (boy... the way Anthony Wong chopped that pig, and gutted it deserved an Oscar of its own )
Wong was also a dishonest gambler and a very unstable person, shown when someone caught him cheating during Mah Jong games, which led to the first gory scene in the movie. Wong gutted and chopped the guy like he was a big fat pig, and better yet, he even casually made him into human groundmeat, which was later used as fillings for his buns, cha siu bao. Surprisingly the customers love the pork buns even the cops who finally come to investigate his restaurants.
The movie then escalated into even more and more violence scenes, and although the director tried to give us breaks by slipping some not-so-funny scenes by the cops (played by Danny Lee - from the Killer, and Emily Kwan - Mu Nian Ci in LOCH94, among others) and showing Danny, as the head of police with different prostitutes each time, it still made me closed my eyes to see the kind of violence and inhuman gore scenes as the movie intensifies during the final scenes.
Anthony Wong won an award as HK Best Actor in 1993 (or 1994) for this movie, heck... he could have won an Oscar or Golden Globe for his performance in here. Definitely at the same class as Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal), Anthony Perkins (Psycho).... except Anthony Wong (wait... don't you notice ???? Another Anthony) is the Chinese (HK) version.
Prepare yourself for the following scenes: (Read it with caution)
- Bloody corpse getting chopped up, mutilated, skinned, gutted
- Human flesh converted into human ground meat
- Human bones thrown into garbages
- Human blood splashing everywhere, including Wong's face and glasses
- Cruel sexualabuses, tortures and mutilation, including rape scenes
- Parents killed in the most inhuman ways in front of their kids watching
- The same children killled in cold-blooded fashion, right after
- Suicide scene that actually makes your eyes refused to open
- Cannibalism, cannibalism, people eating human pork buns
- Cops beating and drugging criminals
- Extreme jail violence scenes
- Human drinking urine in a rustic metal cup
- Another very very depressing suicide scene
Not for the faint of heart
Rent it, buy it, watch it, you will never see or eat dim sum or pork buns the same way again
Has anyone watched this ?