Synopsis
A Chinese Ghost Story (Sien nui yau wan) (1987) 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')... ??Michael Brooke

Awards: 12 wins & 18 nominations
Budget: $5,600,000 (estimated)


Siu-Tung Ching
Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma
1987-07-18 (Hong Kong)
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