The Midnight After Page #5

Synopsis: A night like any other in the streets of Hong Kong: in the midst of the tangle of night-owls, cars and vendors, a group of passengers climb aboard a minibus that is to take them from Mongkok to Tai Po. The group is as diverse as the city: there's a young man on drugs, an arguing couple, a woman with prayer beads and a girl who has just fallen in love, and behind the wheel sits the chatty driver. As the bus emerges from a tunnel, everything is suddenly quite still: the streets and buildings are all empty and there's not a soul to be seen; it's as if everyone has suddenly been swallowed by the earth. Only the millions of neon lights continue to blink, as if nothing has happened. The eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted café and discuss what they should do. Then they make a horrific discovery.
Director(s): Fruit Chan
Production: Film Development Fund of Hong Kong
  6 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
NOT RATED
Year:
2014
124 min
22 Views


You're a scam artist, you b*tch!

You only care about yourself

I'm offering you insurance packages...

I'm not the one who gets the benefits

All of you...

You just stood there, and didn't try to save him!

It happened too fast

That's true

Honey, you too!

He was on fire! What was I supposed to do?

He's dead!

Can you call yourselves men?

Stop it, honey!

(WANTED! Debts of HK$90,000)

The man in a gas-mask!

We have to catch him!

Help him!

Honey, be careful!

Okay!

Hey, this way!

Chi, go round to ambush him!

Okay!

Fat, this way!

Chi!

Hey!

Get him! Ask him what's going on

That girl IV, from the minibus, is dead

She died horribly!

Did he kill her?

Why else would he be running?

Take off his mask!

Ask him why everybody has disappeared

Let me go, don't take off my mask!

Let me go!

He's Japanese?

Hey, let me go!

Get him up!

Take off his mask!

Let me go! Put my mask back on!

I don't want to die!

Ask him in English

Ask him who he is

Where has everybody else gone?

Who are you?

Why do you want to kill us?

Where is everyone else?

Look at me, look at me!

Don't you remember?

You should remember me!

I... came here to save you!

I don't understand him

We don't speak Japanese

Exactly

Google! Google!

Right, use Google

Google Translate

Right, hurry up

Ask him

What did he say?

"It's me, you should remember me"

"I just came here to save you"

Save me?

You know this Japanese guy?

How would I know this Japanese guy?

Ask again

"Give me my mask back"

"I don't want to die now"

You don't wanna die?

I don't wanna die either, a**hole!

I only came to Tai Po to watch football on TV!

I'm gonna kill you!

Speak in Mandarin

Google doesn't work well with Cantonese

Ask him!

What are you doing in Hong Kong?

"Let me go! I'm only here to..."

. help you 17 people"

"Hurry, before things get any worse"

"Please save yourselves!"

Save us?

Ask him if he killed IV

Did you kill the girl?

"You should remember me!"

"It's me, Chi"

"We were classmates"

"We were good friends"

You two were classmates?

You two were good friends?

What the hell does that mean?

I don't know him

You don't know him, but he knows you!

I really don't know him!

Don't go after him, just leave it!

Don't go. You come over here!

See what he said before he ran

"I will save you all, I will save you all"

"Fu...ku..."

Fuku?

What does that mean?

So... what shall we do with her?

It looks like she's been raped

Huh?

Which a**hole did this?

Really evil, out in the open like this?

Chi!

You scared me!

I think there's something wrong with you...

Pedal faster! Faster, faster!

I'm going fast, you want more?

Yes, pedal faster!

Pedal harder!

Any faster, we'd fall into the water

Wow, it's beautiful here

Of course! Why do you think I brought you here?

Did I really have...

a friend with a birthmark?

Yes... you were the class clown

You always made fun of him

Really?

You should remember me!

Chi, it's me

We were classmates

We were good friends

You guys were good friends

Come to think of it...

You remember now?

Yeah

When you were in sixth grade...

Scary Yuki?!

Was he really my classmate?

Hello?

Hello?

Is this Chi? Hello?

'H'?

Hello?

Yi, is that really you?

Yes, it's me, Yi

Is this Chi?

Yes, it's me, Chi

Are you really Chi?

Chi! I've been so worried about you

I miss you too

How is my family?

Your family?

Yau Tsi Chi, how can you even ask that?

Do you know how much

your mum sacrificed for you?

We looked for you everywhere,

but couldn't find you!

I'm sorry...

How could you be such a bad son?

Do you even know that your mother has died?

What? Mum's dead?

During the first year that you were missing

Your mum went into a deep depression

And she eventually passed away

This can't be true

Mum's dead? Mum...

Do you know?

After it happened...

the Chief Executive appealed...

to international rescue teams to

search for survivors

It's been six years!

But none of you could be found

You're saying that I've been gone for six years?

Yes!

The rescue teams scoured Tai Mo Mountain

tracking the signal from

the House of Major Torn

Many search parties went out

But none of them found anything

The rescue teams said...

said the signal came from Tai Mo Mountain?

Yes, the explosion...

The whole of Hong Kong...

Yi! What explosion? Yi!

Don't hang up! Yi!

Yi! Yi...

Yi...

Mum...

Hey! Don't get too close

There are weird marks on the body

Look, it's on his legs

I don't know when the infection started

F***in' hell, you're back!

You disappeared without warning

We thought you were dead

That's right

Sorry about that

You're sorry?

Honey... I...

- Honey!

- Save me, honey!

Honey!

Honey.

Honey!

Honey!

Don't touch him!

Creepy...

"'8 you!

"'8 you!

You went out there with my husband, didn't you?

Why did this happen?

Weren't you supposed to help?

Aren't you in charge here?

Aren't you some kind of big shot?

How could you let that happen to my husband?

Why?

Why? Why?

The way he died...

was as horrible as IV's death

That girl IV?

When we found her...

IV was already dead

She died horribly

F***, why didn't you tell us before?

Maybe there's more than three, that Blind...

The junkie?

Yeah, he could be the fourth

What about the four who got off at CUHK?

How should I know?

Man, what's wrong?

Are you okay?

My stomach hurts...

Maybe...

Actually...

What are you muttering about?

Nothing

Listen, from now on...

Don't split up

No matter what happens, we stick together

How did Lavina die?

How should I know?

Bobby stumbled on her body

It was horrible

Just like 'Mr Toxic' outside

There were purple marks on her body

- I told you...

- Shut up

It's just as I said...

They'll be coming soon

But...

...I didn't expect it to be this soon

Or so horrible

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Nope! I'm leaving

We're dying one by one

First IV, then Auyeung Wai...

And then Bobby

When will it be your turn?

And mine?

It's undeniable...

the countdown to our doom has begun

Hey, are you two leaving?

Yeah, we are

But... what about me?

What about me, Ms Ying?

Are you leaving?

I think I should

We can't!

Huh?

Why not, Ballsies?

I don't know how to explain...

If we go, we have to go together

But we have to find out how they died

What if we meet our relatives again...

and pass on some infection to them?

That's how infections spread!

I told you, I don't have any family

l have

Have what?

I went home earlier...

And I got a call from my girlfriend

How the hell did you get a call?

What else are you hiding from us?

What aren't you telling us?

Where did that call come from?

My girlfriend told me...

we've been missing for six years

Six years?

Six f***in' years?

So... what does that mean?

This is 2018?

2018?

What happens now?

My mother is dead!

She spent ages looking for me

And she said something about

a signal from Tai Mo Mountain

From the mountain?

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