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Dao nao zhe

  • 1984
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5.6/10
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Dao nao zhe (1984)
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A gang of unhappily subtitled detectives follow a trail of pilfered pituitary glands across Hong Kong, uncovering a coterie of black market habitues with equally desperate claims to illicitl... Read allA gang of unhappily subtitled detectives follow a trail of pilfered pituitary glands across Hong Kong, uncovering a coterie of black market habitues with equally desperate claims to illicitly harvested human growth hormones.A gang of unhappily subtitled detectives follow a trail of pilfered pituitary glands across Hong Kong, uncovering a coterie of black market habitues with equally desperate claims to illicitly harvested human growth hormones.

  • Director
    • Dan Pan
  • Stars
    • Wai-Leung Cheng
    • Han Chiang
    • Ping Ha
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    5.6/10
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    • Director
      • Dan Pan
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      • Wai-Leung Cheng
      • Han Chiang
      • Ping Ha
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    Kong Lau
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    Hak-Shun Leung
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    Lam-Ning Leung
    Kai-Man Tin
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    Yukami Towaki
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    Hsiang Lin Yin
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    7BA_Harrison

    Short on taste.

    In his quest to find a counter-agent that will 'cure' his daughter's dwarfism, unregistered backstreet physician Dr. Kwok uses pituitary glands stolen from corpses at the local mortuary; but when several murder victims are also found to be missing their pituitaries, it looks as though the doctor's obsession might have driven him to kill. Is Kwok really a psycho, and if so, how will this affect his relationship with sexy hooker Manna, BFF of one of the recently deceased?

    It's got several gratuitous sex scenes and a fair few grisly murders, and yet the wonderfully titled Pituitary Hunter is remarkably light in terms of nudity and splatter. It doesn't matter much, though: a prime example of dwarfsploitation, all given the sort of spectacularly un-PC treatment that only the Asians seem capable of, this crazy Cat III flick is a whole lot of demented fun.

    Terrible subtitles result in unintentional hilarity; animals are mistreated with alarming regularity (a renegade geek is lured from his sewer hidey-hole by a live duck dangling on a rope); a pair of Chinese bodybuilders perform a cabaret act in a disco; a psycho dwarf on stilts gets stabby with a whore: this is so trashy and jaw-droppingly insensitive at times that avid Cat III fans should still get a kick out of it, despite its lack of bare skin and graphic gore.

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      • September 6, 1984 (Singapore)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Languages
      • Cantonese
      • Mandarin
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