Yuen Cheung-yan, Yuen Woo-ping’s brother, plays a Taoist priest, Master Old Ginger. Chung, the director of VCD is played by Richard Ng, another veteran of the “Lucky Stars” comedy series. Next up, we have Chin Siu-ho, from the original 80s vampire movies series and he shines as VCD’s main fighter Chau, who teaches Tim the ways to fight vampires. While it’s a pleasure to see him on the big screen again, it’s a pity that he is not given a chance to show his kung fu skill here. Anyone who watches Shaw Brothers movies will recognize Lo Mang for his role in “The Five Deadly Venoms”, and “Kid with the Golden Arm”. For a start, we have Lo Mang, who plays Tai Gau-keoi, VCD’s weapon specialist. What makes VCD so watchable and fun is the clever inclusion of a few Hong Kong cinema veterans. Because of Tim’s mistake, this unusual team of street cleaners now has to face the most fearsome creature they’ve ever encountered. In fact, the Chinese title of this movie translates as ‘street cleaner saves a vampire’, actually deals with the romance between Tim and his vampire lover. Summer was buried as a funerary object with her landlord when he died. Tim is supposed to kill her, but falls in love with her instead, names her Summer, keeps her in his tiny apartment and a relationship begins to develop. One night, under a new blood moon, two vampires were resurrected, one in the form of a young female and the other, her more powerful landlord. Tim’s mother was bitten by a vampire and consequently resulted in Tim being immune to vampire infection. As it turns out, Tim’s parents used to work in the same department as vampire hunters. Buy This TitleĪ young orphan student Tim Cheung gets recruited into Hong Kong’s special brunch of the cleaning department in which the cleaners don’t clean the streets but go after vampires instead. It does not store any personal data.Another tribute to the Hong Kong vampire movies of the 80s, this version is more like ‘Ghostbusters’ in which a team of street cleaners goes against not only a young female vampire, but also a very powerful elderly one. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Published as part of New York Asian Film Festival 2017 | Dispatch 3. But when the ending plays like a joyous, supernatural riff on the climax of Marc Webb’s indie romance (500) Days of Summer, the film seems to double-down on its familiar wish fulfillment fantasies. (Their initial, underwater kiss, which restores a sliver of Summer’s humanity, also results in the loss of one of her fangs.) This chauvinistic narrative is slightly complicated when Summer saves Tim-during a fight scene that’s directed, like the rest of the film, with only mild competence by Yan Pak-wing and Chiu Sin-hang. By saving and keeping Summer, Tim domesticates her, and renders her harmless. But in actuality Summer scans more like a pet than a romantic interest she doesn’t speak a single line and her spacey, vampiric otherness repeatedly infantilizes her. On his first real mission, Tim meets the beautiful vampire Summer (Lin Min-chen) and, unable to properly dispose of her, he hides her in his home, inevitably later falling in love with her. An action-comedy in the jiangshi (hopping vampire) tradition, Vampire Cleanup Department concerns Tim (Babyjohn Choi), a nerdy loner who is bitten on the ass by a vampire and subsequently recruited by his rescuers, the clandestine government agency from which the film takes its title.
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