Chow Yun-fat and Sally Yeh charmed in Yu’s 1984 horror The Occupant, while Tsui joined Joey Wong and Sam Hui in 1985 comedy Working Class
Here we look at two relatively unseen works from the star Hong Kong directors.
The Occupant is a very lightweight ghost story, a potpourri of ghostly horror, romance and comedy delivered in equal measures in a carefully understated style.
Comedian Raymond Wong Pak-ming – one of Cinema City’s co-founders – is acceptably funny, too, even though his role as an annoying and nerdy would-be Casanova was designed to irritate.
The story – and the mystery – is so slim it is almost non-existent. Yeh’s Canadian resident is writing a university thesis on Chinese paranormal activities and, by chance, moves into a haunted house when she visits Hong Kong to do some research.







