We're Going to Eat You

Director: Tsui Hark
Genre: Martial arts, World cinema, Action/Adventure, Horror, Chinese Movies
Year: 1980
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Starring: Norman Chu, Eddy Ko, Melvin Wong

We're Going to Eat You is a Hong Kong horror-comedy film directed by Tsui Hark. The film is about a secret agent with code number 999 who is attempting to capture a thief named Rolex. Agent 999's hunt leads him to a village that is inhabited by cannibals. The film was not as big of a success in Hong Kong as Tsui's other 1980 film Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind.

A secret agent named Agent 999 is in trying to apprehend a thief named Rolex. Agent 999's hunt leads him to a village where residents routinely capture visitors and eat them. Although the cannibalistic ritual has been initiated by the town chief, the villagers feel close to rebelling against him as more of their food has been given to his soldiers than the townspeople. Agent 999 is rescued from the villagers form Rolex who has been posing at the village chief's assistant. He rescues Agent 999 as an act to help redeem his career. Soon after, Rolex is caught by the village chief and eaten. This leads to Agent 999 escaping from several different villagers along with a new found love in his life named Eileen.

We're Going to Eat You contain anti-communist themes. This is shown through the village chief's attitudes toward the

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