QIs 'Gin gwai 10' based on a book?
ANo. Gin gwai 10 (The Eye 10, variously known as The Eye 3 and The Eye...Infinity) is the third movie in a trilogy of Eye movies by the Pang Brothers, Danny and Oxide. The '10' in the title does not indicate that this is the tenth film in a series. It refers to a book that details 10 ways to see ghosts. The Pangs, along with Mark Wu, wrote the screenplay. The other movies in the series include Gin gwai (2002) and Gin gwai 2 (2004).
ATed and May don funeral garb and enter the spirit world. They become surrounded with ghosts but use their breaths and Ted's fart to keep the ghosts at bay. They find Kofei and April. Suddenly, they hear bells ringing, signaling that they must return to the real world. It's revealed that Kofei is dead and that April committed suicide. Meanwhile, Chong Kwai and his mother (Pisamai Pakdeevijit) attempt to bring back Ted and May. Ted and May awaken in their funeral suits and see that they are back in the apartment hallway watching the break-dancing boys. When the boys pass through them, they realize that they are also dead. In the final scene, another young man in the bookstore looks at The Ten Encounters, which features caricatures of Ted, May, April, Kofei, and Chong Kwai in the pages. The shopkeeper offers the buyer a discount, and he accepts.
QWhat is 'Gin gwai 10' about?
AWhile visiting their friend Chong Kwai (Ray MacDonald) in Thailand, cousins Ted (Bo-lin Chen) and May (Kate Yeung), May's friend April (Isabella Leong), and April's boyfriend Kofei (Yu Gu) are introduced to The Ten Encounters, a Thai book detailing ten ways to see ghosts. For fun, they try out some of the easier methods and get sucked deeper and deeper into the game until it becomes tragic, even after Ted and May return to Hong Kong.
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