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A Chinese Ghost Story

Cast

Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma, Lau Siu-Ming View All

Crew

Ching Siu-Tung (Director), Yuen Kai-Chi (Writer) View All

Release: Jul. 18th, 1987

Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.

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Torgo
There is more than one segment that shifts from exciting due to Ying's swordplay, romantic due to our leads pining for each other and terrifying - whether it's the claymation temple zombies or Lip's less appealing fellow ghosts - in a manner of minutes.

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Takoma11
Spending the night by necessity in a haunted temple, he encounters the lovely Lip Siu Sin (Joey Wang), a ghost who is forced by an evil spirit to lure men to their deaths.