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Inner Senses
Poster of Inner Senses
Directed by	Law Chi-Leung
Produced by	Tung-Shing Yee
Written by	Sin Ling Yeung (story) Tung-Shing Yee Law Chi-Leung
Starring	Leslie Cheung Karena Lam Maggie Poon Waise Lee Valerie Chow Norman Chu Samuel Lam
Music by	Peter Kam
Cinematography	Kwok-Man Keung
Distributed by	Clyde Films Inc.
Release date(s)	28 March 2002
Running time	100 mins
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

Inner Senses (Traditional Chinese: 異度空間 Cantonese pronunciation: Yidou hunggaan) is a Hong Kong Film Awards nominated psychological horror feature film directed by Law Chi-Leung in 2002. The film explores themes on hallucinations, clinical depression, psychological trauma and suicide. This film has a smiliar plot to The Sixth Sense which starred Haley Joel Osment. This is the final film of Leslie Cheung, before he committed suicide on April 1, 2003.

Summary

Psychiatrist Dr. Jim Law (Leslie Cheung) tries to treat his patient Yan (Karena Lam), a woman who believes she sees ghosts. Law does not believe in ghosts and thinks she is repressing her past. Yan and Law are attracted to each other but she is afraid he will leave her like her last boyfriend, and he does not want to get too close to his patient. He begins reading her diaries to better understand her psyche and learns her parents are divorced and neither care for Yan. Yan is being haunted by the dead wife and son of her landlord and later tries to kill herself by overdosing on antidepressants and slitting her wrist, but lives. It turns out the landlord used to live in Yan's apartment before they died and Law hears voices in the bathroom at Yan's apartment but thinks it's a neighbor playing jokes. Law later sees a ghost in the car next to him and another ghost in the pool while swimming. Law beings taking antidepressants himself and deactivates Yan as a client. The two begin dating. Later, a woman Law doesn't recognize attacks him in a restaurant and they turn out to be the parents of the ghost Law saw in the car. Law begins sleepwalking at nights and, once confronted, starts acting erratically. In the reveal, the ghost in the car was actually the former high school girlfriend (Yue) of Law who killed herself after they broke up. She comes back and forces him to the top of the building where she jumped but Yan shows up and the movie ends with them sitting together on the top of the building.

Cast

• Leslie Cheung - Jim Law
• Karena Lam - Cheung Yan
• Maggie Poon - Cheung, Siu Yu
• Waise Lee - Wilson Chan
• Valerie Chow - Mrs. Chan
• Norman Chu - Mr. Chu (credited as Tsui Siu Keung)
• Samuel Lam - Professor Fong
• Wong So Pik - Jim's assistant (credited as Olivia Wong)
• Leung Tin - Hospital director
• Sun Li Wen - Yan's Father
• Liu Hong Dou - Yan's mother
• So Hang Shuen - Siu Yu's mother
• Wong Sheu Tong - Siu Yu's father
• Lai Pui Yin - Mrs. Chiu
• Lee Ting Fung - Little Chiu
• Jova Yuen - Jim's friend
• Tony Wong - Bathroom ghost
• Stanley Wong - Man upstairs
• Chris Lee Pui Shing - Mike (credited as Lee Pui Shing)
• Ho Pui San - Mike's girlfriend
• Stefan Kratz - Foreign student
• Hugo Chim - Teenage Jim Law
• Helda Chan - Girl in school
• Wat Wai Kwok - Head nurse
• Josephine Choi - Jim's maid
• Zerisawa - Pool security
• Courtney Wu - Swimming pool custodian

Awards & Nomination

• 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards
  • Nominated: Best Actor (Leslie Cheung)
  • Nominated: Best Actress (Karena Lam)
• 2002 Golden Horse Awards
  • Nominated: Best Actor (Leslie Cheung)
• 2002 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
  • Film of Merit

Trivia

• In this movie, Siu Yu attempts to force Jim, portrayed by Leslie Cheung, to jump off a high-rise building rooftop. Coincidentally, Leslie Cheung committed suicide in a similar manner on April 1, 2003. He leapt from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. He left a suicide note saying that he had been suffering from depression. This was the final film he starred in.

External links

• Inner Senses at the Internet Movie Database