Vampire Cleanup Department
New York Asian Film Festival 2017
June 30 - July 16, 2017
In this tongue-in-cheek throwback to old-school Hong Kong comedies, the titular governmental department gets a new recruit in a vampire-immune virgin only for him to fall hopelessly in love with a beautiful nightwalker. Now he wants to train her to be human.
Deep within Hong Kong lies a secret government department dedicated to vampire busting. The headquarters of the Vampire Cleanup Department (VCD) are situated directly beneath an ordinary garbage collection station, and its officers are street cleaners by day. After being attacked, and then rescued by VCD, a nerdy teen (Babyjohn Choi) learns that he’s immune to vampire toxins. Recruited by VCD, he falls in love with a beautiful vampire (Penang-born Lin Min-chen) on his very first mission. Instead of stabbing her through the heart—which after all now belongs to him—he secretly trains her to be human again. This tongue-in-cheek debut feature by directors Chiu Sin-hang and Yan Pak-wing (screenwriter of Full Strike, NYAFF 2015) is a throwback to old-school comedies, featuring a heady mix of newcomers and veterans including Richard Ng, Yuen Cheung-yan, and Chin Siu-ho, the original Mr. Vampire.
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