The Cat

The Cat (衛斯理之老貓 Wèisīlǐ Zhī Lǎomāo, lit. "Wisely's Old Cat"), also known as The 1000 Years Cat, is a 1992 Hong Kong science-fiction action film directed by Lam Ngai Kai, based on the novel Old Cat, an installment of the Wisely Series, by Ni Kuang. Produced by Golden Harvest and Paragon Films, the film stars Waise Lee, Christine Ng, and Gloria Yip. Its plot follows a trio of extraterrestrials, one of whom has the form of a cat, who team up with a novelist named Wisely to fight a malevolent alien that can possess humans. Plot Li Tung is awoken in the middle of the night by the sounds of his upstairs neighbor hammering something. He confronts his neighbor and sees a girl holding a cat inside his neighbor's apartment. The next day, Tung sees the neighbor, the girl, and the cat departing in a moving van. Tung enters the neighbor's now-empty apartment, where he sees piles of newspaper on the floor, some of them bloodied. He lifts the papers and discovers a set of organs, prompting him to notify the police. When the police investigate, they determine the organs to be fresh cat intestines. Later, Tung has dinner with police inspector Wang Chieh-Mei, adventure novelist Wisely, and Wisely's partner Pai So. Wisely later writes that he is convinced that the girl and her cat are from another star. At a museum, an octagonal artifact unidentified by archaeologists is stolen by the girl, the cat, and the girl's knight Errol, who know the artifact to be a weapon. A large, fungus-like monster surging with electricity bursts into the museum, attacking and killing museum guards while the girl, the cat, and Errol escape. A curious Wisely learns of the girl's new address and sneaks into their house. Inside, Wisely overhears the girl telling the cat that they must find a second octagon in order to defeat "the star killer" and return home. The cat alerts the girl to Wisely's presence and scratches him, after which Errol knocks Wisely unconscious. Errol suggests they destroy him, but the girl refuses. When he awakes, Wisely finds no trace of his attackers. Some time later, Wisely and Pai So learn about the theft of the octagon from the museum. Upon visiting the crime scene, Wisely sees that the area is covered in scorch marks, and finds cat hair.