"After establishing the premise of two lovers are discovered being brutally murdered, the film holds the point-of-view of a young nurse Lin (Chang),who is intrigued to seek out the truth not because she has her skin in the game, but propinquity, she is the neighbor of the purported victim Yuen (Chiu),and has already developed a close bond with Yuen's blind grandmother (Lai). THE SECRET starts out like a ghost story, with Yuen's alleged apparition (often shown only with her pair of shoes) lurking near her abode and spooking anyone who dares to go out in the darkness. But audience has no disillusion that anything paranormal is operative here, after piecing together the glimpses of the past, a love triangle emerges between Yuen, her boyfriend Cheuk (Man, really hoking it up gloriously in the risible death scene),and another woman Mui (Li)."

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The movie is based on a true story where a young couple was brutally murdered by a madman in the 70's Hong Kong. Sylvia Cheung plays the dead girl's best friend and is trying to find out what's really happened to her friend. As the story unfolds, nothing is what it initially seems. Ann Hui's first and probably her best movie. The movie beautifully captures the atmosphere of the 70's Hong Kong, where the conflicting impacts of East and West were still obvious. A must-see for noir fans.