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Barrack O'Karma

2019 · 1 season

A slow, eerie mystery that drifts between dreamlike hauntings and everyday apartment life, asking you to piece together its strange connections.

Created by
Yip Chun-Fai
Genres
Mystery
Starring
Joel Chan, Selena Lee, Lau Kong
Overview
Siu Wai-ming has been haunted by a dream of a woman wearing a cheongsam for many years. When he becomes an administrative manager for an old apartment building, he meets a tenant – air stewardess Alex Cheung – who looks exactly like the woman in his dream. As they get to know each other, the apartment building seems to come to life, performing the strange and fantastical lives of the tenants who live there.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Created by
Yip Chun-Fai
Genres
Mystery
Starring
Joel Chan, Selena Lee, Lau Kong
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • mystery
    • fate
    • memory
    Places
    • home
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror5
    Humour3
    Realism5
    Romance4
    Tension6
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    mystery
    Created by
    Yip Chun-Fai
    Written by
    余家冠, 楊欣穎, Ruby Law Pui-Ching, 杨雪儿
    Starring
    Joel Chan, Selena Lee, Lau Kong, Bob Cheung Yin-pok, Kelly Cheung, Jazz Lam Tsz-sin, Akina Hong Wah, Gloria Tang
    Length
    1 seasons, 20 episodes, 42 min each
    Network
    TVB Jade
    Country
    Hong Kong
    Languages
    Cantonese

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