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Life After Life(1981)
Status: Released
Date: 1981-12-22
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1 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
Overview:
When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
Languages: Cantonese.
Countries:
Hong Kong
ProductionCompanies:
Cinema City & Films Co.
Movie: Life After Life
Top 7 Billed Cast
林子祥
Raymond Lam
謝賢
秦煌
龍天生
鄭孟霞
黃韻材
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Overview
When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
Release Date
1981-12-22
Average
7
Rating:
3.5 startsTagline
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Languages:
广州话 / 廣州話Keywords
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