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Tens of millennia ago, eight gods who ceaselessly fought each other were exiled to earth. For generations, they have been reincarnated as mere mortals, and they won't be allowed back to heaven until they've learned to coexist in harmony. Then in today's Hong Kong, a mortuary beautician and her has-been singer dad are chased for a huge sum of money they don't owe. Turns out her materialistic stepmom has taken a tycoon's advance payment on the false promise of organizing a concert that she can't deliver. The family is therefore forced to go on the run, and along the way they meet an assortment of quirky people, including a mute baker, a kung fu cab driver, an aspiring musician and her crafty sidekick. Through a series of comic misadventures, the seven of them come to realize that they used to be gods and have a mission in this life, but...who is the eighth god that has yet to rejoin them?
Gil (Gillian Chung) is a girl who tries to take her own life after being dumped by her boyfriend for another girl, Brenda (Chrissie Chow). Gil gets rescued by a water deity, and believes she has received special powers. Even though she doesn't even know how to swim she enters the Fantastic Water Babes swimming competition, in an vengeful effort to compete against her romantic rival and her friends, and to get back her boyfriend. To master swimming she kidnaps swimming champion Kwok Chi Yuan (Alex Fong Lik Sun) to the island of Cheung Chau, to make him teach her and her friends how to swim.
Director King Hu earned much fame in pioneering in a new aesthetics for martial arts films in the 1960s Chinese cinema. He made The Valiant Ones in 1975 to unfold a story of a patriotic military general and a princess who courageously fight against the invaders during the Ming dynasty. Now the remake stars Nicky Wu, who has just returned to the silver screen with the blockbuster A Battle of Wits alongside Andy Lau, and Huang Yi from the TV versions of Everlasting Regret and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Roy Cheung from Johnnie To's Exiled also plays a crucial role in the film. With Yuen Wah from Kung Fu Hustle in the supporting cast and also serving as the action choreographer, this 2006 remake promises action sequences just as stunning as in King Hu's original. Unlike the many period epics released recently, the film puts greater emphasis on the historical aspect rather than the visual effects.
Three protagonists find that everything in this house is associated with demons, and when the owner dies, the cousin think the cursed villa hides a secret: those who live there die mysteriously by hanging themselves, killing their wives, and many causes. What's the secret of the house?
