Mr. Vampire II

Mr. Vampire II
Original Hong Kong film poster
Traditional	僵屍家族
Simplified	僵尸家族
Mandarin	Jiāngshī Jiāzú
Cantonese	Goeng^1 Si^1 Gaa^1 Zuk^6
Directed by	Ricky Lau
Produced by	Sammo Hung
Written by	Barry Wong
Starring	Yuen Biao Moon Lee Lam Ching-ying Billy Lau Chung Fat Pauline Wong Bowie Wu
Music by	Anders Nelsson Alastair Monteith-Hodge Stephen Shing Cheng Kwok-kong
Cinematography	Andrew Lau Cho Wai-kei Peter Ngor Arthur Wong
Edited by	Peter Cheung
Production company	Bo Ho Films Co., Ltd. Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release dates	15 August 1986
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	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, starring Yuen Biao, Moon Lee and Lam Ching-ying, 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. Mr. Vampire and its sequels were released as part of the jiangshi cinematic boom in Hong Kong during the 1980s.^[1] The Chinese title of the film literally translates to Vampire Family.

Plot

Archaeologist Kwok Tun-wong brings his two students with him in search of ancient artefacts. They stumble upon a cave and discover three geung si (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 them back to his lab and decides to sell the boy 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 his prospective son-in-law Yen, Lam embarks on a quest to destroy the vampires.

Cast

• Lam Ching-ying as Dr Lam Ching-ying (林正英), a physician who is also skilled 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 Tun-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 boy vampire
• Hon To-yue as Chia-chia, the girl who befriends the boy vampire.
• Choi Man-gam as Chia-chia's brother
• Bowie Wu 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		[2]
24 January 2000	United Kingdom	15	Made in Hong Kong	PAL	Cantonese	English		[3]

Laserdisc

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Catalog No	Format	Language	Subtitles	Notes	REF
Unknown	Japan	N/A	Pony Video		CLV / NTSC	Cantonese	Japanese	Audio Mono	[4]

VCD

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Format	Language	Subtitles	Notes	REF
Unknown	Hong Kong	N/A	Megastar (HK)/ Media Asia	NTSC	Cantonese	English, Traditional Chinese	2VCDs
5 December 2003	China	N/A	Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She	NTSC	Mandarin	None	2VCDs	[5]
21 September 2005	Taiwan	N/A	Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She	NTSC	Mandarin	Traditional Chinese	2VCDs	[6]
11 July 2008	Hong Kong	N/A	Joy Sales (HK)	NTSC	Cantonese, Mandarin	English, Traditional Chinese	2VCDs	[7]

DVD

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Format	Region	Language	Sound	Subtitles	Notes	REF
Unknown	Hong Kong	N/A	Megastar	NTSC	ALL	Cantonese, English	Dolby Digital 5.1	English, Simplified Chinese,Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean	Anamorphic widescreen transfer	[8][9]
Unknown	Japan	N/A	Universal Pictures Japan	NTSC	2	Cantonese, Japanese	Dolby Digital Mono	Japanese	Digitally Re-mastered Box-set	[10]
3 August 2001	Hong Kong	N/A	Deltamac (HK)	NTSC	ALL	Cantonese, Mandarin	Dolby Digital 2.0	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese		[11]
5 December 2003	China	N/A	Guang Dong Yin Xiang Chu Ban She	NTSC	ALL	Mandarin	Unknown	English, Simplified Chinese		[12]
19 February 2004	France	N/A	HK Video	PAL	2	Cantonese	Dolby Digital	French	Box-set	[13]
4 July 2006	Taiwan	N/A	Catalyst Logic	NTSC	3	Cantonese, Mandarin	Dolby Digital 5.0	English, Traditional Chinese		[14]
11 October 2009	Japan	N/A	Geneon Universal Entertainment	NTSC	2	Cantonese	Unknown	Japanese	Digitally Remastered Edition	[15]
16 April 2009	Hong Kong	N/A	Joy Sales (HK)	NTSC	2	Cantonese, Mandarin	Dolby Digital 2.0	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese		[16]
21 December 2012	Japan	N/A	Paramount Home Entertainment Japan	NTSC	2	Cantonese, Japanese	Dolby Digital	Japanese	Digitally Re-mastered	[17]

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		[18]
21 December 2012	Japan	N/A	Paramount Home Entertainment Japan	NTSC	A	Cantonese, Japanese		Japanese	Digitally Re-mastered	[19]

References

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External links

• Mr. Vampire II at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. Vampire II at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Mr. Vampire II at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• Mr. Vampire II on lovehkfilm.com
• Audio Commentary from Podcast on Fire