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No. Gin gwai [English:The Eye] is based on a screenplay by Chinese twin-brother screenwriters and directors, Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun. They say that they were inspired to write the screenplay for The Eye by a report they had seen in a Hong Kong newspaper about a 16-year-old girl who had received a corneal transplant and committed suicide soon after.

He got his report card from school and lost it, but his parents didn't believe him. They thought he did badly and yelled at him. So he killed himself. That's why he pops up ever so often asking if Mun's seen his report card. Here, you find out that ghosts who killed themselves relive their deaths over and over again.