I have a friend from Hong Kong and she said a similar event took place, where a shop owner killed people and used their meat as "pork" buns. She said the movie was made after the event and was based on it. Apparently its a very famous story in HK. Anybody know anything about it?
shareYeah from what I heard, the film was based on a true story but it wasn't really an entire family, it was about a couple or something who got pork bun...
Problem is, I can't seem to find any link about this true story though as it could be old news =P
The only thing I can think of off-hand that is true and similar is the story of Fritz Haarmann, "The Butcher of Hannover", who sold human flesh as pork to the unsuspecting, during his reign of terror in Germany's post-WWI lean years of 1918-1924. For more info, go to:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/haarman/terror_2.html
This is definitely a true story that happened in Macau think either 1985 or 86 and of course the movie is dramatized. The ways the employees, family members were killed, his stylized suicide and the comedic police are fiction. It was highly rumoured that some bodies were used as fillings for the buns as the police could only find a small amount of body parts as evidence, furthermore residents feedbacked that the buns did taste unique during that time. However he indeed committed suicide before revealing further detail to the crime.
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I have wondered whether this is a true story too, its just that its impossible to find anything on the web regarding Wong Chi-Hang or a Macau murderer. If anyone finds anything substantial, can you please post a link!
shareyeah it is a true story, my girl friend (who is from Hong Kong) told me about it which is how i know this film, she took a picture outside of the restaurant where it happened just for laughs
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It's obvious from these comments that it's not a true story, but possibly based on very small details, Fritz Haarmann sounding the most likely. It's also just rumor that he sold human meat as food, or 'pork'. Also, this isn't the first movie at all to use the whole human meat being sold as food thing as an idea.
The rest just sound like urban legends.
It's probably LOOSELY based on true events. I mean, Texas Chainsaw Massacre is LOOSELY based on Ed Gein, and if you look at the details, truth is WAY different than fiction. I think this might be China's version of TCM. I recall a time when people actually thought TCM happened(especially with the fake notice bit in the movie. I've met people who were hard pressed in believing that there WAS a real Leatherface, and him and his family killed and ate people in the early 70s. One went so far to say that they once saw it in the newspaper back in the day. This all, even though Tobe Hooper, the creator of TCM, has said that he got the inspiration behind TCM from two places:
1. Ed Gein
2. Fantasizing about how cool it would be to grab a chainsaw and mow through people while waiting in a long line at a hardware store.
Loosely inspired by true events doesn't always mean the true events were exactly the same(or even resembled the events in the movie). Hell, A Nightmare on Elm Street was also, technically, inspired by true events. In the late 70s there was a story Wes Craven read in the LA Times about teenagers of Asian descent that were having nightmares so frightening, they were dying in their sleep. Of course, that doesn't mean there's such thing of Freddy Krueger.
Yes. On August 8th, 1985, there was 8 pieces of human remains found on a beach in Macau. After a couple days 3 more pieces were found. Police believed at least 4 victims were involved. They suspected that sharks were responsible for the death. The investigation did not show any progress until 8 months later, when the police received a letter of reporting 10 missing persons (included the owner of Baat-Sin restaurant and his family members of 8, plus 1 hired worker). Following the leads the police arrested a suspect named Wong Chi Hang, whom was subsequently charged with murders of 10 and put in custody. But before the trial day Wong committed suicide in the jail on October 4th, 1986.
The media wildly reported that Wong had sold the pork-chop buns that were made with the victims' body parts (instead of pork meat). But it have never been able to confirm such rumour. The mystery of "human pork-chop-bun" has become one the most known and discussed crime story in Macau, Hong Kong and GuangDong.