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溶屍奇案 (1993)
Legal Innocence
Alias: Legal Innocent
Alias: 變態溶屍
Alias: B. T. R. S.
Origin: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese 
Circuit: Mandarin 
Genre: Crime 
Rating: III (Hong Kong) 
Theatrical Run (HK): 06/12/1993 - 06/23/1993
Box Office: HK $5,983,331
 
Director
  Cha Chuen-Yee
 
Screenwriters
  Rico Chung Kai-Cheong
  Jason Lam Kee-To
  Chung Oi-Fan
 
Producers
  Cha Chuen-Yee
  Rico Chung Kai-Cheong
 
 
Cast
  Francis Ng Chun-Yu ... Patrick Wong
  Cecilia Yip Tung ... Shirley Cheng
  Ivy Leung Si-Man ... Kitty Yuen
  Anthony Wong Chau-Sang ... Inspector Lau
  Hoh Yan (2) ... Brenda Wong [intro]
  Paul Chun Pui ... Prosecutor
  Hui Siu-Hung ... Patrick's defence lawyer
  Lau Kong ... Tsang Kit Ngai
  Danny Ko Lam-Pau ... Jury
  Florence Kwok Siu-Wan ... Jury
  Lam Po ... Jury
  Andrew Yu Ming-Hong    
  Rita Ching Lam    
  Wa Lun Dei Liu ... Catholic priest
  Hui Suk-Han    
  Ho Pak-Kwong ... Patrick's doorman
  Ng Hong-Sang    
  Leung Sai-On    
  Ernest Mauser ... Judge
  Wong Chi-Wing ... Prison guard
  Ho Chi-Moon ... Extra
  William Chu Wai-Lim    
  Unknown 90s Actor (25) ... Extra
 
Production Company
  Concept Link Productions Ltd.
 
Distributor
  Mandarin Films Distribution Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong)
 
Assistant Director
  Paco Yiu Fung-Suen   Chan Wai-Chu
 
Director of Photography
  Sung Kong
 
Focus Puller
  Tang Yiu-Kwong
 
Lighting
  Leung Sing-Kwong
 
Art Director
  Eric Lam Yau-Sang
 
Assistant Art Director
  Lam Sau-Lan
 
Costume
  Choi Siu-Hing
 
Makeup
  Tsoi Siu-Chun
 
Editor
  Li Kwong-Tim
 
Props
  Tai Chi-Fai
 
Music
  Herman Chow Kam-Wing
 
Production Manager
  Leung Wing-Yim
 
Associate Production Manager
  Siu Wing-Hong
 
Project Manager
  Thomas Leung Man-Lung
 
Still Photographer
  Lee Cheung (4)
 
Tea Lady
  Choi Siu-Hing
 
F/X Designer
  Leung Wing-Yim   San Wik Stunt Production Company
 
Laboratory
  Universal Laboratory Limited
 
Subtitles
  Fine Art Production Co.
 
 
Summary
  Same story as in Remains Of A Woman, with a different treatment. The viewpoint character is Shirley Cheng, a prison psychiatrist who is introduced while being energetically screwed by her married lover Tsang. The couple are clearly very tense, as she presses him to get divorced and he resists. A visit to her patient, and the main accused in the Brenda Wong murder case, Kitty Yuen shatters her already brittle nerves. Not the best emotional state in which to confront the co-accused Patrick Wong (Francis Ng, doing his usual great job of the really horrid villain), an extremely cunning and manipulative creep, who quickly convinces the vulnerable Shirley that he can read her feelings and understand them, in a neat reversal of the counsellor/patient roles. This scene is irresistably reminiscent of Silence Of The Lambs. Shirley's life continues to unravel, as she reluctantly dumps Tsang, and comes more and more under the sway of Patrick. She moves into his creepy house, burns a book at his request, and comes on side with his priest to plead his innocence/contrition. The descent of the apparently independent and capable career woman Shirley to become Patrick's whimpering sycophant is as compelling and believeable as it is utterly sickening. But suspicion lurks, most prominently in the form of the neighbour and cop Inspector Lau, who was the chief investigator in the case. Lau is a real oddball, and his actions initially do nothing to make Shirley want to trust him. But the truth is revealed incrementally.......