Tales from the Dark 1

Tales from the Dark 1
Directed by	Simon Yam Lee Chi-ngai Fruit Chan
Screenplay by	Lilian Lee Lee Chi-ngai Fruit Chan
Story by	Lilian Lee
Produced by	Mathew Tang Bill Kong[1]
Starring	Tony Leung Kelly Chen Simon Yam Siu Yam-yam
Cinematography	Jason Kwan Wade Muller Lam Wah-chuen[1]
Edited by	Kwong Chi-leung Lee Kar-wing Lee Chi-ngai Fruit Chan[1]
Music by	Kenji Kawai[1]
Production companies	Edko Films Movie Addict Productions
Distributed by	Edko Films
Release dates	28 June 2013 (2013-06-28) (New York Asian Film Festival) 11 July 2013 (2013-07-11) (Hong Kong)
Running time	112 minutes[1]
Country	Hong Kong[1]
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$7,677,402[2]

Tales from the Dark 1 (李碧華鬼魅系列: 迷離夜) is a 2013 Hong Kong portmanteau horror film directed by Simon Yam, Lee Chi-ngai, and Fruit Chan. The film is split into three segments, each based on a short story by Lilian Lee. The first part, titled Stolen Goods (贓物), starred Simon Yam as a jobless man who steals funerary urns and forces the dead's relatives to pay him to get back the urns. The second part, titled A Word in the Palm (放手), starred Tony Leung Ka-fai as a fortune-teller who teams up with his neighbour (Kelly Chen) to help the ghost of a schoolgirl (Cherry Ngan). The final part, titled Jing Zhe (驚蟄), starred Susan Shaw as a "villain-hitter" who is approached by a woman (Dada Chan) to curse four people.

The first segment also marked the directorial debut of actor Simon Yam. The film was shown at the New York Asian Film Festival on 28 June 2013 and released theatrically in Hong Kong on 11 July 2013. It was followed by Tales from the Dark 2, which was released four weeks later on 8 August 2013.