Ebola Syndrome is a 1996

Hong Kong films of 1996

A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 1996:.-1996:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 1996 at...

 Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 exploitation film starring Anthony Wong

Anthony Wong Chau Sang

Anthony Wong Chau-sang is a Hong Kong Film Award-winning Hong Kong actor, screenwriter and film director. He is regarded as one of the most notable actors in Hong Kong.-Biography:...

 and directed by Herman Yau

Herman Yau

Herman Yau Lai-To , born 1961 in Hong Kong is a film director, actor, cinematographer, scriptwriter and film producer.-Background:A Chiuchow by origin, Yau studied film at The Department of Communications, Hong Kong Baptist College from 1981 to 1984 where he spent much of his early days hanging out...

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Plot synopsis

Ah Kai is a wanted convict from China who escapes to South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 after killing his former boss and his boss's wife. In South Africa, he works at a Chinese restaurant and one day travels with his boss to a South African tribe that is infected with the Ebola virus

Ebola virus

Ebola virus causes severe disease in humans and in nonhuman primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever. EBOV is a Select Agent, World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogen , National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Category A Priority Pathogen,...

. Kai sees a dying infected tribe member and rapes her, contracting the virus

Virus

A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...

. Kai, however, is immune to the infection. He becomes a living carrier

Disease carrier

Disease carrier could refer to:* Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displaying no symptoms* Genetic carrier, a person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displaying no symptoms...

, spreading the disease to others through body fluids. He ends up killing his new boss and his boss's wife, but not before spreading the virus to them. He then cuts up their corpses and serves them as hamburgers in the restaurant, effectively spreading the virus all over South Africa and Hong Kong.

Cast

• Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as Kai San
• Yeung-ming Wan as Yeung
• Fui-On Shing as Annoyed Husband
• Wong Tsui-ling
• Miu-Ying Chan as Har
• Meng Lo as The Boss
• Edward Corbett
• Lori Shannon
  Lori Shannon
  Lori Shannon was an openly gay female impersonator who was long associated with the drag revues at the famous Finocchio's nightclub in San Francisco. He also wrote an entertainment column for the Bay Area Reporter...
  
  
• Michael Tam
• Bobby Yip as Short Ugly Triad