The Detective (1966)
Ho Pui-lan was the secretary of the writer Wu Him, but she died suddenly at home. Ho's mother commissioned private detective Chan Kin-chau to investigate and found out that Pui-lan and Him were having an extra-marital affair, and also discovered that the contents of Him's fiction were similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note. When Kin-chau finds out that the contents of Him's fiction are similar to the contents of Pui-lan's suicide note, he and Pei Lan's sister Yuk-lan reenact the murder case, and Him is stimulated and hallucinated to reveal the truth of the murder...
- Released
- 1966-05-04
- Genres
- Mystery
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Tso Kea, Woo Mei-Bing
Cast
- Patrick Tse Yin as Chan Kin-chau
- Chow Chung as Ng Ying-lin
- Chan Tsai-Chung as Ho Yuk-lan
- Wong Wai as Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing
- Shih Kien as Wu Him
- Helena Law Lan as Mrs Wu
- Seung-Goon Yuk as Ho Pui-lan
- Ai Tong-Kua as Chan Kin-chau's assistant/ Fuk the Shortie
- Ma Siu-Ying as Ho Pui-lan and Yuk-lan's mother
- Chu Siu-Boh
- Tang Cheung as Goon
- Wong Hon