
The Detective(2007)
A private detective is drawn into a complex murder mystery when he is hired to track down a missing young woman.

Alan Tam is a writer who has spent the last decade in a mental hospital. Upon leaving, he rents an apartment in an abandoned building which contains a clock that sends him back to 1984. The only person that can hear Alan during this time is one of the previous tenants, a young girl named Dolphin. A strange romance soon develops between the two, and so when her sister Whale begins dating a suspicious professor, Alan helps Dolphin to find out the shocking truth about her sister's beau.

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Alan Tam
Dolphin Chan Hoi-Hang
Dolphin / Shark

Parkman Wong Pak-Man
Officer Lee Sau

Lawrence Ng Kai-Wah
Wong Yu Yan, Anthropologist

Teddy Yip Wing-Cho
Dolphin's Dad

Dayo Wong Chi-Wah
Dr. Wong
Perrie Lai Hoi-San
Whale

Lee Chung-Wai

Sean Lau Ching-wan
Joe [cameo]

Chang Gan-Wing
Library Cleaner [cameo]
New Tenant is a drama, mystery, thriller film released in 1995. Directed by Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, it stars Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Dolphin Chan Hoi-Hang, Parkman Wong Pak-Man. Alan Tam is a writer who has spent the last decade in a mental hospital. Upon leaving, he rents an apartment in an abandoned building which contains a clock that sends him back to 1984. The only person that can hear Alan during this time is one of the previous tenants, a young girl named Dolphin. A strange romance soon develops between the two, and so when her sister Whale begins dating a suspicious professor, Alan helps Dolphin to find out the shocking truth about her sister's beau.
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