Hong Kong Synopsis
死亡写真
“Drop dead beautiful.”
Jiney is an popular art and photography student, but despite winning an award, she remains unhappy with her work. After photographing the aftermath of a fatal car accident, she finds herself obsessed with death. Suffering from morbid throughts, flashbacks of an incident from her youth when she was sexually abused by some young boys start to appear.
The 2003–2005 Hong Kong Window
In the crowded 2003-2005 Hong Kong release window, Ab-normal Beauty sits at #38 of 50. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
2004 was the decade’s peak output year for Hong Kong — 20 titles released, including Ab-normal Beauty. Bars below show how the 2000s stacked up year by year (146 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 19 other Hong Kong films in 2004.
The 563rd Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Audience Engagement
55 audience reviews — more than 69% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Review volume (69th percentile) outruns trending popularity (54th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Ab-normal Beauty, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- stalker · 5
- snuff · 3
- sadist · 3
- mask · 2
- art student · 2
- death wish · 2
- art class · 1
- hallucination · 11
- knife · 9
- model · 7
- hong kong · 73
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #693 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (17th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.8 points below the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Horror productions specifically: #55 of 81 (top 68%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Production Companies | Magic Head Film Production |
| Runtime | 1h 37m |
| Release Date | April 11, 2004 |
| IMDb | tt0434762 |