Forest of Death (film)

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Forest of Death
The Hong Kong theatrical poster.
Directed by	Danny Pang
Produced by	The Pang Brothers
Written by	Cub Chin Danny Pang
Starring	Shu Qi Ekin Cheng
Music by	Payont Permsith
Cinematography	Choochart Nantitanyatada
Editing by	Curran Pang
Distributed by	Universe Films
Release date(s)	Hong Kong: March 22, 2007
Running time	85 min.
Country	Hong Kong/Thailand
Language	Cantonese
IMDb profile

Not to be confused with the US movie Forest of the Dead.

Forest of Death (also known as Sum yuen) is a 2007 Hong Kong crime-horror-thriller film directed and co-written by Danny Pang.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Release
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Police detective Ha Chun-Chi (Shu Qi) is investigating a rape and murder that took place in a mysterious forest that has also the scene of many suicides. The main suspect in the murder case is Patrick Wong (Lawrence Chou), but he denies committing the crime.

Ha's investigation leads to botanist Shum Shu-Hoi (Ekin Cheng), who has been experimenting with plants from the forest. Shum's girlfriend, May (Rain Li), is feigns interest in the forest to gain information for a tabloid television show she works for.

Shum's experiments reveal that the plants can act as witnesses in the murder case, and sets up a re-enactment of the crime in the forest, where the plants will act as lie detectors.

[edit] Cast

Shu Qi as Detective Ha Chun-Chi
Ekin Cheng as Shum Shu-hoi
Rain Li as May
Lau Siu-Ming as Mr. Tin, the forest ranger
Lam Suet as Commissioner Wong
Tommy Yuen as Shu-hoi's assistant
Lawrence Chou as Patrick Wong
Cub Chin as Producer

[edit] Release

Forest of Death was released on Region 3 DVD in Hong Kong by Universe Laser on May 10, 2007. It also screened out of competition at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival.

[edit] External links

Forest of Death at the Internet Movie Database
Forest of Death at the Movie Review Query Engine
Forest of Death at Love HK Film

v • d • e Films of the Pang Brothers

The Eye	The Eye (2002) • The Eye 2 (2004) • The Eye 10 (2005)

Other films	Bangkok Dangerous (1999) • Sung horn (2003) • Re-cycle (2006) • The Messengers (2007) • Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Oxide Pang	Who Is Running? (1997) • Bangkok Haunted (2001) • One Take Only (2003) • The Tesseract (2003) • Ab-normal Beauty (2004) • Diary (2006) • The Detective (2007)

Danny Pang	Nothing to Lose (2002) • Leave Me Alone (2004) • Forest of Death (2007) • In Love with the Dead (2007)

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