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== 字幕制作：弥撒之夜 ==

I've met all the modeIs

and this one

She'll be our main cast

agree

She fits our fashion

Although she's not the most popular model

Bue she fits for our show

Yes

Just likeall mouse catchers are good cats

With our specially designed tempIe stage

And thefashion designed by Mr Shih

We'll attract many foreign reporters

to propagateourfashion in the world fashion world

All danceswill beco-ordinated

with the mutivison

Many peopIe treats puppets

asa evil protector

Infact. puppet show is the earliest drama

Howcan myfashions be demonstrated

by puppets

don'tagree

Let me explain

AllfaciaI expression and cosmetic in puppet shows are very deIicate

May be these puppets can coincide

with Di Di'scharacteristic

and improve herchance

Turn the Iighton please

agree

can do the showall by myself

This is only my personal opinion

Although I'm the showsponser but I shouIdn't interfere

with the administration of thedeveIopmentcouncil

Yes dealingwith puppets

are much easier than dealing with those big shorts

Since we can manipulate the puppetsat ourwill

Miss Hsu

What?Am I making you happy?

I feeI you look

ike a rich man

Cheers. toourshow

Di Di youI'vecharacter

I can make you the most popuIar modeI of the world

Come to my pIace to havedinner when you have time

When l have time'

Areyou scared?

Pretty good. even the paintings arevery attractive

Butyou don't have to hang all this scary paintings

Doyou knowthat many people are wearing the mask ofdevil

But not every body wants to be the deviI

This one must be you

Let get out of here

To bed he will have nothing to wearunless he puton the mask

s this what they call the suppernaturaI?

Yes'

knew l was sophisticated when buy this painting

Do you know that?

I was raised in a very dramaticenvironment

So I've learntto be sophisticated

It's not badforyourroIe

What is keeping you busy?

Wait a minute

Excuse me howis Miss Hsu dong?

Pretty nice WhaIt'sthis?

This is called mutivision

What is itfor Iooks compIicate?

It'scomputerized

Itcan monitorthirty spot lights simuItaneousIy

and can producevarious lightings

we'll use it in thefashion show

I have neverused it before

I'mfistone using the muItivision

Notthetime yet. goformake up

See ifsuitsyou

Doyou live herealso?

I Iiveat the cookIoft

LeIt'sgoto the studio

Where's the photographer?

We are onlytesting yourmake up I can

handIe it myseIf

gotta get something

Do it Iike this

I've tried it in a charity showbefore

knowhowto do

You Iike the opera too?

I though girIs to-day seIdom watch theoperas

I'm interesting in all kindsofshows

I'd Iearn anything that l don't know

It'sgood to myseIf

Here's the reference youwantforthe puppets

This puppet showgroup has theirown puppets

And It's all antique

You thinkabout it

These puppets might have been buried with deads before

They may beweird

what a coinsidence

Butthe peopIe in thegroup

all believe it

They nevertool the puppets home

'll take you to meet Han

Who is him?

They young guy

Han is sickagain

What is it…?

Get someone to Iookafterhim

Yes

Take him overthere

Doyou need a doctor?

No It's been with me since l wasa kid

Go homeand take a rest

Lin I told hi aIready

You bettertake him and taIkwith him

Let me accompany you home?

ThaIt'sgood

I'm very stupid and l can heIp mygrandma out

I appreciate yourheIpforthe shows

Mygrandma isa vegetarian

She haseven become temple in-charge

She said

thejobcan give hertime toworship

Sowe Iive in the temple

Doyou knowtheway?

I don't

t seemsthat I've been in here before

Here it is

Let me see ifmy grandma went to bed yet?

Grandma I was sick again to-day

Areyou aIright now?

Yes thisgentleman has helped me

Thank you every much. pIeasetakea seat

Sit down

Grandma

He'sfrom the development counci

and used toarrange showsforus

Hewantsto borrowourpuppets

Puppets?

Yes grandma

'm preparing a fashion show and l need some puppets

What puppets haveto do

with fashion show?

He'sa very nice person Iend it to him

OrI can rent iffrom you

We need the puppets desperateIy

They are good people

They arrangethe showsforus

Alright. l can Iend it tothem

Butdon't blame me fyoufind It's too oId

Canwe have a Iock?

The puppetsaren't in here

We don't liketo put the puppets

in ourhome

Why not?

Just don't mention it

What happens totheelectricity?

It's been cutoff

Don't beafraid. theyare puppets

We liketo breakthe stageeverytime wewent on the stage

Whyyou have to break the stage?

Thecursewon't

afterbreaking the stage

Thenwe'd not be hurt

Whatareyou doing?

Nothing

It's horrible

Just like rea

Don't use them

Why not?

We need it

Match itwith thiscoIour make upthis partfirst

You'revery skiIIful

May be lI've Iearntfine arts before

Alright?

Alright

Howabout the cIose up shot?

It'sdone

Di D

Just do likethis Iater

You'revery skiIIful?

Did you learn it in yourpast life?

Di Di havea try

what are you Iistening at?

Don'ttouch my shoulder. l'm going to gambIe on horse-racing

OK. take a rest

What is this?

t shows the orbit ofthecomets

twill come back

aftera definite period oftime

Butthetime it takesvaries

Theancient peoplethough it is the sign ofomen

I've been keeping the record forthe last ten years

I wanna prove

It'sonIy superstitious

I'll namethe nextcomet afterme

f I canfind a newone

I thinkyou are a bit overconfident

What is this?

It'sthe starcloud

Does it Iook Iike ourbrain?

I think it Iooks likea painting

Actually. a Iot ofabstract

ike philosophy

and human history are all derived

from the mutation ofthe univers

Speaking in anotherwords It's Iooking forthe truth ofthe universe

In more simplewords It'stakewhateverbeing offered

Lin the slide is ready

It's blank

Easy you may get shock

Itdoesn'twork

Yourassistant hasfixed it upforyou

When can I be ready?

Sit downfirst

This isforyourdemonstration

all are siIent pictures

Di Di

this is howyou should doyourwake up Iike the gentIe character

This is the strong character. and this istheclown character

You are nottoofamiliar with the puppet movements

Practise more

What is it?

Nothing!

What is the matter?

Areyou aIright?

'm aIright

It'sweird

The puppetwastrying to hit you

I sawthe puppetalso. but itwasjust likedreaming

Hanwas sickagain but he's recovered now

sawa comet too

CometwouId bring bad luck

Whydid you have to see a comet?

Howdo l know?

gotta get going ifthere's nothing eIse

'll accompany Han home

Di Di I'm leaving now

Bye bye

Go. go

Don'tgo

Fatty

Sorry towake you up soearIy

n the puppet referencefiIe

there isa case about a puppetartist being kiIIed

The puppest showon the picturejust Iike the onewhich tried to hit me

Can you get some more detaiIed information on the caes

A puppet kiIIer

I have no idea

Thiscase happened inAug 30 1995

The placewas packed with Iood-stained puppets

the poIicetooktheweapon awooden hammer

Thewooden hammerwasthe kiIIing weapon

Itwas not the puppetthen

Howcome It'sthewooden hammer?

This puppet does lookfamiIiar

But It's notvery cIear

I borrowthis

from the new'sagency

Takea cIoserlook. see isthe puppets is in there

These puppets Iooks like the puppetswe borrowed

It's not impossible

Therewasn'ttoo many puppets group around

May be this murder

has connestionwith grandma

Canwe seetheclose-up?

This is the one isn't it. Di Di?

Isn't it?

We can consult the grandma

No Ieave it

We haven't collected enough information

It's not nice to remind the oId Iadywith some unIucky past

Come in'

Mr. Shih

Howare you Mr.Lin?

Areyoufeeling better'

Whata coincident MrShih?

I am hereto pick Di Di up

to dinner

We are investigating some strange incident

What strange incident?

He said he has seen a puppettrying to hit me

Isn't this the puppetthatappeared

n the murdercase happened 26yearsago?

may be isn't the puppeIt's spirit

It's

too supersitious

Thevictim was killed by

thewooden hammernot the puppet

I think my last accidentwas onIy an eIectricsock

Howdo you expIain yourillusion?

It must be my brain wavewas superimposedwith thefrequency

So I had caughtthe picture

Just likethistelevision set

Same principle

Right. lI've bought you some piIIs

Take it

WhaIt'sthe matterwith you?

We are not going outfordinner

Why not?

Just don't ask

Alright. leIt'sgo home then

The Iawof Hong Kongjust like the Iawof United Kingdom

CiviI case 3 to 5 years

7 years isthe maximum

before Iosing theaccusing right

Butforcrimial case. It's different

ike robbery deception. murder

You will aIways havethechanceofbeing accused provided thaIt's enough evidence

Whatabouttheantiquesforthe auction?

It'sall ready

Howisyourantique business lately?

Steady

MytweIeve sub-branch has been opened

forbusinessyourhoteI

can get the best shop Iocation

because l got yours truIy. support

Ifnot I think

It'sonIy co-operation

I can eve heIp you soIvethe problem

aboutyourcompIicated

scientificevidence

Can you heIp me

to lookforsomething?

No problem

I'm interested in coIIecting some oIdwooden scuIptures IateIy

s it?

Ifyouwantto lookfor some oIdwooden suuIptures

can helpyou

You are interested in the buddhasor…

It's some oIdwooden puppets

Which category?

Special. butwe can talk about this later

Therewas blood-stain on it before

But I couldn'tfind outthe blood type

Let me explain toyou

The maximum period forretaining

theAB type bIood in 15years

andforRh blood type isonIy 9 months

According toexperimentaI results

from It's hairand tissue structures

t has been put inside a box

with some cIothesfora Iong time

We couIdn'tfind anything

aboutthefingerprints

sincetoo many people had touched it

Butone thing is confirmed

The noseand the lowerpart ofthe earofthe puppet

had obviously been struck with something soIid

Butwecouldn'tfind what the solid was

But it must be something duII andfirm

not sharp

ThaIt'sall

Here's thefuII report

You can have it

Thank you IeIt's go to have a cup ofcoffee

No I'm busy

Call me iftheres anything new

Alright. thankyou Good bye

Three's somebody

I'd Iike you to meet

Who?

A Chinese mathematician

LeIt'sgo

You were born inAug 29 1995

Itwas the yearofgoat according to Iunarcalander

Which means you shouId be 27 years oId now

According tocaIcuIation

you been awayfrom home since you'rea kid

Ifnot you'd cause thedeath ofyourfather

Born in Aug

You are inteIIigent. and quite taIented

You shouId do some business concerning

with technicaI orresearch development

Don't involve in business

Yourforehead havea birthmark ofyourprevious Iife

Havea look ifyou don't beIieve

No I haven't

It'scovered bythe hair

ThaIt's right

Born on the 29th

29th standsformetalliccharacter

You shouIdn't pIayaround with wood structures

It'syourfate to havetwochiIdren

You 'll not have anychiIdren ofyourown

You act Iike being cooI on compassion

But inside It'scomplete the reverse

There's an omen planted inside you

Something badwill occuron you

thisyear

Come to see meafterNov

Mrs Pa

You'll be rich this time

Thisgentleman wantsto busy all the puppets you have

He iswilling to paywhateveryou ask

Yes Mrs Pa yourpuppetgroup has a Iong history

sothe puppets must beofgreatvaIues

Iove collecting articticcrafts

'mwilling to paythe price you ask

No I will not sell those puppets

All my puppetsare Ieft to me from myancestors

Can l have a Iookthen?

No I've lent it to somebody eIse

Try somewhereelse

don't botherme

Mrs Pa

Why haveyou been recently?

Yes I've quite busy IateIy

I haveto take the chanceforwork

Takethechance you don't believe infate mow

Yes I do

Actually It's been contradicting inside me

I feeI that my life have been pre-arranged by mefate

But I alsofeel that ifa person can handlethechance

that hecan handle himself

You know l'm studying science

I shareyourfeeling aIso

Butaccording tothe chinese mathematician

He has calculated out my pastcorrectIy

So make me becomeconfused

I found wearequite match in this

I wouldn't invite you to dinner

Thank you

Come in here. quick

Here. Here

Hurry. hurry

Somethingsworng. go

You were left behind

Doyou have anything to taIkto me?

Grandma grandma

Mr. Lin

Haveyou seen these pictures before. grandma?

Doyou knowwho these two persons are?

Mydaughterand mydaughter-in-law

I'm not sure if I shouId tell you aboutthis

Thoseold puppetsyou lent me

Thay all suddenIy disappeared

with onIy this one Ieft

WouId these puppets have something to dowith the murder?

It'sthefate

don'twant to mention aboutthe past

Nevermind aboutthe puppets

you can keep this onealso

There seems a Iot ofofstrange things happened recentIy

I was knocked out byan electric shock

and l hand been hit bythis puppet

t mayjusta coincidence

When the murderoccurred

The poIicealso thoughtthat Chiu was killed by thewooden hammer

And Hsiao Hungwas passed outon thefIoor

So I rushed hertothe hospital

Aftershe got tothe hospital

Shewasdead due to unsmooth deIivery

Hewas ore-birthed

OurfamiIywasn't rich

So hedoes not have sufficient nuition

Just likewhat you see

There's somethingwrongwith his brain

It'sjust nitfair

HowcouId sucha thing happened?

It's probablytheworst ofmyfate

Mydaughterused to be aggressivewhen shewas kid

She compIained

against herhusband

Actually. ourfamiIy has Iong been involved in this profession

And herhusband was doing pretty good in the puppet show business

SuddenIy. l heard him screaming

rushed tothe puppet room to seewhat happened

andfound that hewas kiIIed

Hsiao Hung was holding thewooden hammerin herhand

Then it had nothing todowith the puppets

No

Did you seeany strangers on that night?

No but'

Grandma Mr. Lin. you're here

Raymond Lin

Lin Wai Min. American chinese

Born on 29th Aug.. 1955 in Sanfrancisco

His parents had dead Iong ago

and hewas raised by hisgrandma

He Iived in China Town

that howhe learntthecontonese

He majors in mathematicand astronomy

Hewas invite bythetourist association to cometo H K

towork as the production managerin 1980

And he opened up

an television program centerearIy

He is now responsiblefor afashion show sponsered

bythedeveIopmentcouncil

He'swaking up

Howcan it happen? Call thedoctor quick

I've seen it. lI've seen it

Alright

ThaIt'senough

What?The pupperhas hityou again

have seen the puppet again

butthistime he hit me twice

have seen a cometalso

s that an illusion caused by the puppet?

It'sdifferentthistime

sawa woman wearing herstocking

And a man was lighting a cigrette

But I couldn't see hisface

I could onIy see his back

Which l believe I've seen before

Excuse me I havetoo Ieave now

Take some rest. Lin

Good bye

Where are you going grandma?

Grandma

Areyou aIright?

It'syou

Get up. grandma

Whatareyou doing. grandma?

Please get up. whatareyou doing?

Grandma

HowcouId it happen?

Both incidentswere mereaccidents

Theywereaccidents

It's not myfault

I don't haveto shoulder the responsibility

Sotroublesome

There's no news on the missing puppets

It must becommitted by somebody behind all this

We can hardlyfind it in the market

Areyou getting better afterthesefewweeks rest

InspectorChen from the headquarter youI've met him before

He is now investigating the puppetscase

Please make yourseIfcomfortable

We have net before

Who is behind all this?

May be somebody Iovesto coIIectthisold antiques

WouId it be possibIe that the murderhas used itto kill

And trys todestroy the evidence?

It's possible butwecanjust guest

What shouIdwe do then?

We police are quite superstitious

I have requested assistancefrom some exorciserin somecase before

Once

What happened?

Doyou see puppetsappeared in thewater

Nothing in it

Butthoseexcorciserdoes

They can see puppets appeared in thewater

and can heIp you goget it back

Whatcan oftrick do you call it?

It's named Yuen Kong Shu

Just like some exorciser

They can invite your ancestors up tothisworId

to taIkto you

Not onIy the sound but their facesalso

Where can wefind theseexorcisers

Wateris no probIem

It's hard tofind this kind ofpsychic

found that being a modeI has nodifferentwith the puppets

WhaIt'swrong being a puppet?

You don't haveto botherabout anything

Actually everybody arejust repeating what they use todo

You goto the office talking the same rote

WhaIt'sthedifferentwith the puppets?

It's betteroffto live a simpIe live

The moreyou know the moretroubles you'd have

You'retoo pessimisticabout human Iife

Theothernight my inspectorfriend

told me that It's hard tofind the puppets

UnIess consuItswith the exorciser

Whatexorciser?

Hetalks something aboutYueng Kong Shu

I have no ideawhat it is?

Anyway hethought the puppets must have been stoIen by some maniac

who loves tocoIIectthewooden puppets

Yes he is aIso interested in collecting puppets

Heasked me tofind some puppetsforhim

Who is he?

Mr. Shih

You don't Iook Iike too happy

As Iong as you can enjoy yourseIf you don't have tocare about me

WhyDon't you go in to have a dip?

goto get somedrinks

You gotthatfrom a caraccident?

What?

The mark on yourforehead

It'sa birth mark

I wanna showyou something

Whatareyou doing?

You haveonIy thing against puppets?

I heard Di Di said you likecoIIecting puppets

So I brought it hereforyourcomment

'm only interested in collecting them

notcommecting on them

Did you contactwith any puppetgroups before?

No I'm a business man

onIy interested in coIIecting the puppet recently

AreyoufamiIiarwith the puppetgroups?

Me?

Doyou used to be in thefashion business?

s H K. yourorigin?

Areyou interested in my personal matters?

Whataretwochatting?

About something I'm not interested

Who is he?

thought the backof Mr Shih isfamiIiarorto me

Just liketheone l sawthe iIIusion

I justdon't understand what you twoaredoing?

One is getting mad

and one is taIking to himseIf

Whydid you come home so late

doyou have tocare about it

It must something bad I've committed in my past Iife

Haveyou heard hertaIk aboutthe past life?

Howcome I'd get pregnant

I've taken the pills regularIy

We betterwaste it

Howare you old dad?

Thank you thank you

WouId you mind if I ask you something. sir?

Go ahead

This is youryearsofcontrast

You may be kiIIed thisyears

s thereany otherwaysto solve it?

UnIess you have something good

Whatgood things?

Like ifyou have a bady boy and becomeafather

But itwould not happen

It's something you pIanted in yourpast life

You will not have anychiIdren

Takecare ofyourself

Make somearrangements

Mr.Shih has a very cIean past

May be he hasaltered it himself

I must have been bitten by the maIe

Butwho is he?

Han. Di Di. me

we must have some connectionwith it

This referencecenterhas contained

al the information thatyou require

Who hit meafterthe man has left?

There might be a third person

Look

Di Di was born on the same daywith me

You twoarea born matching pair

Let see Han's birth date

Hewas aIso born on the samedate

Three ofusareall born on the same day

WouId it bejust like the massage man said

It'sconnected with my past Iife

29thAugust 1995

It'sthe sate ofthe murder

ThaIt's right

All thereofus are reincarnated on the same day

The iIIusion that I've seen must be my past Iife?

Don'tforget the cooktail party hoIded by the French fashion designer

Right. waitforme

Hurry up

'll arrangeto letyou do the shows Paris

You haveto back me up

Howdo you know l'm here

It'seasy if I want tofind you

You reallywantto have me?

I've madeoverten phone calls to Iocat you

And you wantfun ofme

Don't beangry LeIt'sgoto the peninsula hotel to haveyourfavouritedish?

Howdo you knowwhat myfavouritedish is?

You Iike thefried rice

with eges

You enjoya loveIy atmosphere and style aren'tyou?

Theseare notcoincidence

tjustcouldn't becoincident

But howcomeeverytime

when I waswith Di Di and Han

I havethefeeIing

thateverythingwe did haveoccurred to me before

Thevillage path. the house

Theamn's back

HowcouId it be coincident?

Who is the man?

Who is he?

You know l'm not superstitious

But I Iet metell you

howcomeyourillusion has matched

with what the astroIogersaid

It'sfate

Whatdate?

I don't beIieve it

Three's nothing asfate

I'll break it up

Di Di doyouwantto get rid ofthe body?

She must help me out

Theastrologersaid l can't have children

f I can get a body

Which means l can break thefate

Di Di keep the child

Don't be sad. Han

Grandma knowyou'rea good kid

Time is up Han

burn somethingforgrandma

Burn somethingforgrandma

Call theambulance. hurry up

Di D

don't knowhowdid all this happened?

Don't you believe me now? Orwill you heIp me?

We can break ourfate

ifwecan have a baby

Keepthe body understand?

You arecrazy. The doctorhas made a mistake I wasn't pregnant

ThaIt's nottrue thaIt's nottrue

Di D

Thedate ofyourtrtuen thistime

29th ofNovember

Theday ofthefashion show

That Iasttime you returned was on the dayofthe murder

Di Di

three's something l must taIkto you

What is it?

tconcerns about ourlife

WhaIt'swrong with you?

Haveyou seen it. illusion

Haveyou seen it. have you?

What iIIusion? l don't see it

Thewooden puppets

aredriving you crazy

You were mywifeduring ourpast life

You did something bad to me in ourpast Iife

Past life howcomeyouwouId beIieve in such nonsense

Di Di you. meand Han werejust onefamily

Yu were the family member of the crazy family

don't understand it Lin

You were educated in thewest

Howcomeyou'd believe n this superstitious nonsense?

Lin

Listen to me Di Di

Trust me. l won't hurt you Di Di

Wewill becondemned

ike in the past life needs help

Let me taIkto him

may be he really nees help

You betterleave us aIone

Don'tworry. itwill bealright

Di Di

I find thatyou. Han and me were all born on the sameday

The night that the murder happened in the puppetgroup

The pregnantwoman

I've seen in the iIIusion is you

The husband is me and Han isthe son

Don't you understand?

We msut be cooperated and you must help me

Dl Di we can change our fate

can't just Iet the fate handles my Iife

You are going crazy

Don't go away

I've seen the whoIe thing Di D

sawyourIover

onIy l couId see hisface

What are you doing?

YourIife iscontroIIed bythefate

Howare you?

Whatareyou doing?

Doing Yuen Kong Shu inviting grandma up

Ask her

why did Han got burn todeath?

And why herpuppets

ike to hit you?

Thank you

Have you seen it? Howwas it?

Good

Let me

How come there is so much bIood? Don't move

hoId this

Didn'ttell you notto get rid ofthe body?

Now l know he is yoursecret Iover

Don't don't

Don't

It's really you