The Untold Story
The Untold Story is a 1993 film from Hong Kong, directed by Herman Yau, running 96 minutes. reelscum files it under splatter and transgressive & midnight.
- Year
- 1993 · 1990s films
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Director
- Herman Yau
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (37/100)
- Also known as
- The Eight Immortals Restaurant: The Untold Story · Human Pork Chop · The Untold Story · The Untold Story: Human Mean Roast Pork Buns
Defined in the glossary: Splatter, Transgressive & midnight
Anthony Wong won Best Actor for this. Then you find out what goes in the pork buns.
Herman Yau's Category III landmark takes a real Macau murder case and hands it to Anthony Wong, who plays a restaurant owner working through his staff and eventually a whole family with a cleaver, then solving his disposal problem by folding the evidence into the char siu bao he sells over the counter. Wong is astonishing, and that is the trap, because the film is very well acted and directed and uses that skill to make the murders land harder than any cheap shocker could. The police-procedural framing plays much of it for grubby comedy, then drops you into scenes there is no comfortable way to sit through. It won Wong the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, which tells you the performance is the real thing. It remains the film people mean when they say Category III. Know what that means before you start.
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