The Detective

  • Genre: Mystery
  • Run time: 101 min
  • Premiere: 1966. May 4.

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...

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Patrick Tse Yin

Chan Kin-chau

Chow Chung

Ng Ying-lin

Chan Tsai-Chung

Ho Yuk-lan

Wong Wai

Police Sergeant/ Cheung Yu-shing

Sek Kin

Wu Him

Seung-Goon Yuk

Ho Pui-lan

Aai Dung-Gwa

Chan Kin-chau's assistant/ Fuk the Shortie

Ma Siu-Ying

Ho Pui-lan and Yuk-lan's mother

Tai Sang-Po

Servant

Heung Hoi

Truck driver

Art

Chan King-Sam

Set Designer

Costume & Make-Up

Chan Man Fai

Makeup Artist

Tsui Kam-Lun

Hair Assistant

Crew

Chan Kon

Cinematography

Edward Hoh Yue-Yip

Manager of Operations

Directing

Cho Kei

Director

Wong Sum

Assistant Director

Lou Wai

Script Supervisor

Editing

Sung Ming

Editor

Production

Hoh Gin-Yip

Producer

Lam Wai

Production Manager

Sound

Mui Ching

Sound Recordist

Writing

Woo Mei-Bing

Screenplay