Dear Murderer

Dear Murderer

1969 · 109 min · Horror

Tu Chang (Peter Chen Ho)’s boss Yeh Kuang Lung (Liu Kei) thinks highly of him and is prepared to give him his daughter’s hand in marriage. Lan Fen (Pat Ting Hung), a company typist, is Tu’s sweetheart. She gets pregnant by him and threatens to tell the manager unless he’s prepared to do the right thing. Tu however is bent on marrying Jenny. When words fail to win Lan over, Tu murders her and hides her body in the wall of an abandoned villa. Tu weds Jenny but after his honeymoon finds that a lawyer named Huang Hsiung (Wang Hsieh) is investigating Lan Fen’s disappearance on behalf of her family.

Directed by Kōji Shima · Written by Kōji Shima

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Peter Chen Ho Tu Chang
Pat Ting Hung Lan Fen / Lan Fang
Betty Ting Pei Jenny Ye
Wang Hsieh Huang Hsiung
Ou-Yang Sha-Fei Mrs. Yeh
Liu Kei Yeh Kuang-Long
Kuei Chih-Hung Secretary He

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