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Mr. Vampire II 
Original Hong Kong film posterTraditional 僵屍家族 Simplified 僵尸家族 Mandarin Jiāngshī Jiāzú Cantonese Goeng1 Si1 Gaa1 Zuk6 Directed by Ricky Lau Produced by Sammo Hung Screenplay by Barry Wong Starring Lam Ching-ying
Yuen Biao
Moon Lee
Billy Lau
Ka Lee
Chung Fat
Pauline Wong
Wu FungMusic by Anders Nelsson
Alastair Monteith-Hodge
Stephen Shing
Cheng Kwok-kongCinematography Andrew Lau
Cho Wai-kei
Peter Ngor
Arthur WongEditing by Peter Cheung Studio Bo Ho Films Co., Ltd.
Paragon Films Ltd.Distributed by Golden Harvest Release date(s) 15 August 1986 Running time 86 minutes Country Hong Kong Language Cantonese Gross revenue HK$17,072,137 Mr. Vampire II, also known as Mr. Vampire Part 2, is a 1986 Hong Kong comedy horror film directed by Ricky Lau 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. The Chinese title of the film literally translates to Vampire Family.
Contents
Plot
Archaeologist Kwok Tun-wong brings his two students with him in search of ancient artifacts. They stumble upon a cave and discover three geung sis (Chinese "hopping" vampires) - an adult male, an adult female, and a child male). The vampires are immobilised because they have Chinese talismans with spells written on them stuck to their foreheads. Kwok brings the corpses back to his lab and decides to sell the child 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 concludes that there are vampires running loose in town. Together with his daughter Gigi and prospective son-in-law Yen, Lam decides to embark on a quest to destroy the vampires.
Cast
- Lam Ching-ying as Dr. Lam Ching-ying (林正英), a physician who is also versed 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 Tung-wong (郭敦煌), the archaeologist who discovers the vampires
- Billy Lau as Chicken, Kwok's student
- Ka Lee as Sashimi, Kwok's student
- Pauline Wong as the female adult vampire
- Cheung Wing-cheung as the male adult vampire
- Hoh Kin-wai as the little vampire
- Hon To-yue as Chia-chia, the girl who befriends the little vampire
- Choi Man-gam as Chia-chia's brother
- Wu Fung 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
VHS
Release date Country Classifaction Publisher Format Language Subtitles Notes REF 19 June 1998 United States Unknown Tai Seng Video NTSC Cantonese English [1] 24 January 2000 United Kingdom 15 Made in Hong Kong PAL Cantonese English [2] VCD
Release date Country Classifaction Publisher Format Language Subtitles Notes REF Unknown Hong Kong N/A Megastar (HK)/
Media AsiaNTSC Cantonese English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs 5 December 2003 China N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC Mandarin None 2VCDs [3] 21 September 2005 Taiwan N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC Mandarin Traditional Chinese 2VCDs [4] 11 July 2008 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales (HK) NTSC Cantonese, Mandarin English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs [5] DVD
Release date Country Classifaction Publisher Format Region Language Sound Subtitles Notes REF Unknown Hong Kong N/A Megastar NTSC ALL Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1 English,
Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese,
Japanese,
Korean[6][7] Unknown Japan N/A Universal Pictures Japan NTSC 2 Cantonese, Japanese Dolby Digital Mono Japanese Digitally Re-mastered Box-set [8] 3 August 2001 Hong Kong N/A Deltamac (HK) NTSC ALL Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese[9] 5 December 2003 China N/A Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She NTSC ALL Mandarin Unknown English, Simplified Chinese [10] 19 February 2004 France N/A HK Video PAL 2 Cantonese Dolby Digital French Box-set [11] 4 July 2006 Taiwan N/A Catalyst Logic NTSC 3 Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.0 English, Traditional Chinese [12] 11 October 2009 Japan N/A Geneon Universal Entertainment NTSC 2 Cantonese Unknown Japanese Digitally Remastered Edition [13] 16 April 2009 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales (HK) NTSC 2 Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese [14] Blu-ray
Release date Country Classifaction 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 [15] References
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External links
- Mr. Vampire II at the Internet Movie Database
- Mr. Vampire II at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- (Chinese) Mr. Vampire II on Baidu Baike
- Audio Commentary from Podcast on Fire
The Mr. Vampire franchise Films directed by Ricky Lau Mr. Vampire (1985) • Mr. Vampire II (1986) • Mr. Vampire III (1987) • Mr. Vampire IV (1988) • Mr. Vampire 1992 (1992)Films directed by other directors New Mr. Vampire (1987) • Vampire Vs. Vampire (1989) • The Musical Vampire (1990) • Crazy Safari (1991) • The Ultimate Vampire (1991) • Exorcist Master (1993)Categories:- 1986 films
- Hong Kong films
- 1980s horror films
- 1985 films
- Hong Kong horror films
- Vampires in film and television
- Golden Harvest films
- Martial arts horror films
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