A Chinese Ghost Story
1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Hong Kong
Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence (or 'yang element').
Direction Ching Siu-Tung
Cast Leslie Cheung · Joey Wong · Wu Ma · David Lam · Lau Siu-Ming · Fanny Sit · Wong Jing · David Wu · Huang Ha · Yeung Yau-Cheung · Sze Mei-Yee · Chiang Kam
Soundtrack Romeo Díaz · James Wong
Screenplay Yuen Kai-Chi · Songling Pu
Cinematography Poon Hang-Sang · Sander Lee · Tom Lau · Horace Wong
Original title Sien nui yau wan (A Chinese Ghost Story)
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