Ebola Syndrome
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German title | Ebola Syndrome |
Original title | Yi bo la beng duk |
Country of production | Hong Kong |
original language | Cantonese , English |
Publishing year | 1996 |
length | 98 minutes |
Age rating | FSK unchecked |
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Director | Herman Yau |
script | Chau Ting |
production | Wong Jing |
cut | Choi Hung |
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Ebola Syndrome is a Hong Kong film by Herman Yau from 1996, which received a Category III rating in Hong Kong due to the drastic depiction of violence and the tough story.
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After the chef Kai San, who works in a restaurant in Hong Kong, is surprised by his boss during sexual intercourse with his wife, Kai kills both the latter and the said woman. Only the little daughter of the two survived. Kai then has to flee the country to avoid the police investigation. He had barely fled to Africa when he found work in a restaurant there again. Since his new boss is too stingy to pay the prices for pork at the local market, he decides - together with Kai - to buy the meat for less in a nearby village and take it away. On this occasion, the cook raped one of the local women and contracted the Ebola virus that the woman was carrying. However, Kai is one of the few people who are resistant to the pathogen. Shortly afterwards, he shows symptoms of the disease, but these subside quickly. Thus, the cook becomes the carrier of the deadly epidemic without realizing it. After he is caught having sex with his wife by his new boss, he kills these two too. However, in order not to have to flee again and to cover up his act, he continues the business himself. He makes the corpses of his former employers disappear by turning them into meatballs, which he then puts on the menu in the restaurant. By preparing and selling these meatballs, Kai unintentionally infects all customers with the Ebola virus. The disease is spreading quickly. The police also track him down after the only survivor of his first massacre in Hong Kong happened to meet him in "his" restaurant and recognized him by his smell. When Kai realizes during his second escape back to Hong Kong that he is responsible for the epidemic as the virus carrier, a desperate chase with the police through the streets of Hong Kong begins. In this, he randomly infects unsuspecting passers-by out of sheer malice, until the police can finally overwhelm him.
Web links
- Ebola Syndrome in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ebola Syndrome in the online film database
- Horror Page Review
- Comparison of the cut versions of the normal version and the long version of Ebola Syndrome at Schnittberichte.com