Hong Kong The Eye is a Hong Kong–Singapore co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
見鬼
“How can you believe your eyes when they're not yours?”
A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.
Audience Engagement
380 audience reviews — more than 93% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 85th percentile among Hong Kong films.
Hong Kong × Singapore Co-Production
Other Hong Kong×Singapore titles
Other Titles From Applause Pictures
The 2001–2003 Hong Kong Window
The Eye holds position #16 of 43 Hong Kong films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Eye premiered alongside 12 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 38m runtime, production spent $109K per minute on screen and earned $18K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other Hong Kong films in 2002.
The 534th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Eye, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- blindness and impaired vision · 5
- loss of eyesight · 3
- transplantation · 2
- blind girl · 2
- eye operation · 1
- violinist · 1
- corneal transplant · 1
- afterlife · 13
- remake · 101
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #270 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (68th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.3 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Horror productions specifically: #12 of 81 (top 15%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, Netherlands, Singapore |
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Spoken Languages | English, Mandarin, Thai, Cantonese |
| Production Companies | Applause Pictures, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Film Workshop, Fortissimo Films |
| Runtime | 1h 38m |
| Release Date | May 9, 2002 |
| IMDb | tt0325655 |
| Official Site | theeye.kingnet.com.tw |