EBOLA SYNDROME (1996)
Starring Anthony Wong and Miu-Ying Chan
Interesting Hong Kong-produced gore flick opens up with a restaurant employee (Wong) murdering his boss, after being caught sleeping with his wife.
Ten years later, he's working for yet another restaurant, this time in South Africa, and we get to know him as a selfish pig who constantly complains about how people "bully him". During a trip to an African village to buy some pigs with his boss. On the way back, he has sex with a dying African woman and catches the Ebola Virus, a deadly disease that turns internal organs to mush.
Only it turns out he's a "carrier"-one in 10 million who can receive the virus without having it kill them. As you'd might expect, he starts having conflicts with his new boss; kills him; takes over the restaurant and then starts serving human meat instead of pig meat.
It's more or less the typical kind of thing that happens in a Herman Yau film. Yau also directed the 1992 film "The Untold Story," another film with a restaurant fixation. The whole point of that movie was human meat being sold in buns by a psychotic who murdered his boss and took over his restaurant. Wong also starred in that movie.
Yau's movies strive to break taboos, cranking up the gore, sex and violence content to very high levels. But they have all the atmosphere of a made-for-TV movie and the intelligence of a raccoon. Still, no one can say his films are boring.