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The Cat (1992 film)

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The cat, whom the alien girl calls "the General", enters Wisely and Pai So's home, wanting his tail back. The girl and Errol follow, and confirm to Wisely and Pai So that they are extraterrestrials. The tail reattaches itself to the General. Wang appears outside, and begins firing bullets into the
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Wisely and Wang borrow a dog named Lao Pu from a man named Chen, intending on using the dog to track down the cat. Wang and four other police officers are attacked by the fungal monster, which takes control of their bodies. A possessed Wang acquires firearms from a group of criminals, killing the
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Inside, Wisely overhears the girl telling the cat that they must find a second octagon in order to defeat "the star killer" and return home. The cat alerts the girl to Wisely's presence and scratches him, after which Errol knocks Wisely unconscious. Errol suggests they destroy him, but the girl
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Wisely, the girl, and the General drive to a building where they encounter the fungal monster. The monster forces them up to the roof, where the General, holding the completed octagon in his jaws, flies into the monster's mouth, destroying it from the inside and causing it to explode into a
397:. Tung enters the neighbor's now-empty apartment, where he sees piles of newspaper on the floor, some of them bloodied. He lifts the papers and discovers a set of organs, prompting him to notify the police. When the police investigate, they determine the organs to be fresh cat intestines. 31: 423:, where the cat severely injures Lao Pu. Wisely nearly apprehends the cat, but he flees, leaving behind a severed portion of his tail. At a hospital, Chen takes Lao Pu home, and Wisely learns from a bone analysis that the cat the tail belonged to died many years prior. 392:
Li Tung is awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of his upstairs neighbor hammering something. He confronts his neighbor and sees a girl holding a cat inside his neighbor's apartment. The next day, Tung sees the neighbor, the girl, and the cat departing in a
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glittering substance. The girl and the General use the substance to transport themselves home. Later, Pai So arrives with police. A reporter follows, but Wisely declines to provide her with a story, saying instead that she can read about the events in his next novel.
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refuses. When he awakes, Wisely finds no trace of his attackers. Some time later, Wisely and Pai So learn about the theft of the octagon from the museum. Upon visiting the crime scene, Wisely sees that the area is covered in scorch marks, and finds cat hair.
431:, but Wang is unharmed. Wang follows Wisely to the roof, where Wisely electrocutes him. Wang falls off the roof, and Errol sets himself on fire and jumps onto Wang. Wisely, Pai So, and the girl drive with the General to an 408:-like monster surging with electricity bursts into the museum, attacking and killing museum guards while the girl, the cat, and Errol escape. A curious Wisely learns of the girl's new address and sneaks into their house. 435:, where the girl uses a telescope to locate her home star. Her distant home sends a beam of light down to the observatory, radiating the General's body and making him "the strongest knight in the universe". 400:
Later, Tung has dinner with police inspector Wang Chieh-Mei, adventure novelist Wisely, and Wisely's partner Pai So. Wisely later writes that he is convinced that the girl and her cat
404:. At a museum, an octagonal artifact unidentified by archaeologists is stolen by the girl, the cat, and the girl's knight Errol, who know the artifact to be a weapon. A large, 620: 419:
At the location of the second octagon, Wisely and others witness the cat stealing the artifact, and flying through the air as he escapes. Lao Pu tracks the cat to a
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The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977–1997: A Complete Reference to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios
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criminals when they demand he pay for the weapons, and showing himself immune to their gunfire in the process.
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A brief history of world science fiction movies: 20,000 miles of light and shadow
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Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Lam Ngai Kai
Gordon Chan
Ni Kuang
Chua Lam
Waise Lee
Christine Ng
Gloria Yip
Golden Harvest
Cantonese
science-fiction
action film
Lam Ngai Kai
Wisely Series
Ni Kuang
Golden Harvest
Waise Lee
Christine Ng
Gloria Yip
extraterrestrials
moving van
are from another star
fungus
junkyard

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