I have to admit to being a fan of the films of Umetsugu Inoue, and enjoyed this one, even if it wasn’t the swinging 60′s musical that I was used to. In fact this is a change for the director, but does feature some of his normal elements, like taking the cast to Japan, and having at least 3 beautiful lead actresses, in this case the 3 sisters going to Japan to find their father and claim their legacy that they never knew they had, but in a dark mystery filled with murder and suspense. The film is filled with twists and turns, but centered around the seemingly haunted mansion in Japan and the grounds around it, and is filled with murder, death and betrayal. And enjoyable Shaw film, though not one many will rush out to get, but I loved it.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…

3 sisters receive letters from the father they never knew they had who is a very rich business man in Japan, and wants to leave his 5 billion dollar legacy to his 3 daughters, played by Margaret Hsing Hui as a kind hearted sister, the kind hearted by blind Wang Ping, and the money grubbing whore Kuo Man No. who also brings her jealous pimp/boyfriend. The 3 women meet on the plane, as well as Margaret meeting Ching Feng who is a doctor on his way to Japan to investigate the death of their father’s lawyer. When the 3 women arrive, they find that their father has changed his mind and is instead leaving all of his money to his sleazy nephew. A monsters also seems to stalk the halls, and we realize it is the Nephew, but their seems to be another monster as well scaring the women away, as well as another sleazy lawyer of their fathers who seems to be in cahoots with the nephew. Eventually it is learned that the monster is an illegal alien that worked for the father and who was mute, and who disappeared, and is now heavily disfigured and living in a cave, but he saves Margaret from the Nephew. The lawyer attempts to kill Ching Feng who is going to the police, but he survives being hit by the car, and returns. Meanwhile the father is revealed to be the dead lawyer that Ching Feng was coming to investigate, and the one killed was the actual father, and the servant had the original will that left everything to the 3 daughters, though the whore was already killed. And the once dead lawyer now is the father and has the rights to everything, but they use the darkness and Wang Ping’s blindness to knock him down the elevator shaft, and the 2 surviving sisters inherit the money and return to Hong Kong.

An enjoyable if not amazing film, without any real star power except maybe Ching Feng, but it still works. Not Umetsugu’s best work for Shaw, but still an enjoyable film.