The Untold Story

The Untold Story is a 1993 Hong Kong crime-horror film directed by Herman Yau and starring Danny Lee and Anthony Wong, with the former also serving as the film's producer.

The film is based on the "Eight Immortals Restaurant murders" that took place on 4 August 1985 in the Hei Sha Wan section of Areia Preta, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Portuguese Macau. While the massacre of a family of 10 did occur at the restaurant, the alleged cannibalism is sensationalism inferred from the incomplete discovery of the victims' corpses, only finding limbs, and the lack of a smell of decomposition despite the tropical summer heat.

The film was followed up by two unrelated sequels: The Untold Story 2, with Wong returning in a supporting role, and The Untold Story 3 with Lee returning in another role.

The story opens in 1978 with an argument in a small Hong Kong apartment. Chan Chi-Leung brutally beats a gambler named Keung nearly to death for refusing to lend him money before burning him alive. He flees the Hong Kong police, burning his identification documents and changing his name to Wong Chi Hang.

Eight years later, a Macau family discovers a bag of rotting arms and legs washed up on the beach. Police officers Bull, Robert, King Kong, and Bo arrive on the scene before being joined by their supervisor Inspector Lee. The cops take in the limbs for examination. The atmosphere in the police station is lax, with Lee regularly bringing in prostitute "dates," Bo openly pining for Lee, and her male colleagues cracking sexist jokes.

Wong Chi Hang, now operating the Eight Immortals Restaurant, receives and tears up a letter meant for Cheng Lam, the former owner of the restaurant. He tries to obtain legal ownership of the restaurant, but an attorney tells him it is impossible without the signature of Cheng Lam. Later, a waiter catches Wong cheating at Mahjong. After closing, he stabs the waiter in the eye with a spindle and beats him to death with a ladle, then makes buns with his flesh.

A forensics analyst identifies one of the severed arms as that of Chan Lai Chun, Cheng Lam's mother in law. The police also receive a letter from Cheng Lam's older brother, asking them to look into Cheng Lam's disappearance. Inspector Lee finds the coincidence suspicious and orders his subordinates to investigate the restaurant. Wong tells Bull and Robert that Cheng Lam has gone away and sold the shop to him, while Pearl, the hostess, tells Bo about the letters from the mainland the restaurant has received. Wong gives the police free buns and convinces them to leave. That night, Wong accuses Pearl of giving information to the police. He brutally beats her, rapes her, and stabs her vagina with chopsticks, killing her. He then dismembers her corpse as well.

Inspector Lee and his team visit the restaurant again the next day, and Wong continues to act suspiciously. The team shadows Wong that night, and he is arrested after trying to dispose of Cheng Lam's family's identification documents and flee to China. Lee correctly deduces that Wong cheated Cheng Lam at gambling, then murdered him and his family before stealing the restaurant, but Wong refuses to confess. When the police try to beat a confession out of him, Wong manages to alert the press, and Lee's team is reprimanded for police brutality.