My Date with a Vampire II | |
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Genre | Fantasy, jiangshi fiction, supernatural, romance |
Written by | Chan Sap-sam |
Directed by | Chan San-hap Ng Kam-yuen Sin Chi-wai Wong Wai-kit Chan Kwok-wah Tang Hin-sing Ma Wah-kon CHeung Kin-wai Leung Yan-chuen Lau Tze-fuk Leung Kwok-kun Lau Wai-sing |
Starring |
Eric Wan Joey Meng Kristy Yang Kenneth Chan Pinky Cheung Berg Ng Chapman To Simon Yam Ruby Wong Cheung Kwok-kuen Wong Shee-tong Joey Leung |
Opening theme | Ka Yu Chan Di Yau Ko Yeuk Wui (假如真的有個約會; If We Really Do Have a Date) performed by Chiang Ka-ying |
Ending theme | Ngoi Zoi Tei Kau Wai Mit Si (愛在地球毀滅時; Love When the Earth is Destroyed) performed by Lee Kwok-cheung |
Composer(s) | Yukie Nishimura |
Country of origin | Hong Kong |
Original language(s) | Cantonese |
No. of episodes | 43 |
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Producer(s) | Sin Chi-wai |
Location(s) | Hong Kong |
Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
Production company(s) | ATV |
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Original network | ATV |
Original release | 6 March – 30 April 2000 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | My Date with a Vampire (1998) |
Followed by | My Date with a Vampire III (2004) |
My Date with a Vampire II | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 我和殭屍有個約會II | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 我和僵尸有个约会II | ||||||||||
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Transcriptions | |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Wǒ Hé Jiāngshī Yǒu Gè Yuēhuì Èr |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | Ngo5 Wo4 Goeng1 Si1 Jau5 Go3 Joek3 Wui6 Ji6 |
My Date with a Vampire II is a 2000 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV as a sequel to My Date with a Vampire (1998), but with a completely new story. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire III in 2004. The series starred many cast members from the first season. Like the first season, My Date with a Vampire II also blends aspects of the Chinese "hopping" corpses of jiangshi fiction with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends, but in this season, there is an additional touch of eschatology.
At the end of the first season, the buddha Vairocana granted Fong Kwok-wah (Fong Tin-yau) his wish to travel back in time and be a vampire no more. At the start of the second season, Fong Kwok-wah and Yamamoto Kazuo clash again in 1938 and their fight arouses the attention of the vampire progenitor Cheung San, who interrupts the fight. Just as Cheung San is about to bite the two men and turn them into vampires, Ma Dan-na appears and attacks Cheung San and drives him away, thus sparing Fong and Yamamoto from their fates. Not long later, Fong agrees to help Ma hunt down and destroy Cheung San. They succeed in trapping Cheung San but he breaks free, bites Fong and the boy Fuk-sang, and transforms them into vampires.
Fong Kwok-wah and Fuk-sang survive until the present-day (1990s) and their physical appearances have not changed since 60 years ago. However, before Fong became a vampire, he already had a son with his wife Sau, so he now has a grandson named Fong Tin-yau. Fong Tin-yau is killed in an incident in England so Fong Kwok-wah impersonates his grandson. He meets Ma Siu-ling (a descendant of Ma Dan-na), the heiress to a clan of ghostbusters who have dedicated themselves to ridding the world of evil supernatural beings. Fong starts a romance with Ma.
Nüwa, the goddess who created humankind in Chinese mythology, feels very disappointed and heartbroken after seeing how her creations have been corrupted by evil. She intends to end the world on 2 January 2001. Cheung San existed long before the world came into existence, and he has a crush on Nüwa. Fong Tin-yau, Ma Siu-ling, and their friends plan to stop Nüwa from ending the world. However, they will come into conflict with not only the goddess herself, but also Cheung San and his followers.