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  1. Jun 24, 2024 · Based on a series of live-action Hong Kong movies by Tsui Hark ( A Better Tomorrow, Once Upon a Time in China ), A Chinese Ghost Story is about a young, not-so-smart tax collector/scholar named Ning. Wandering through China, depressed over the loss of the girl of his dreams, he meets an ethereal beauty and falls for her. So what if she's a ghost?

  2. Jul 3, 2024 · A Chinese Ghost Story is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy horror film starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, and Wu Ma, directed by Ching Siu-tung, and produced by Tsui Hark. The plot was loosely based on a short story from Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, and also inspired by the 1960 Shaw ...

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  3. 6 days ago · The classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980s are paid homage in this 2013 Hong Kong horror. The film reunites some of the cast from the original Mr. Vampire series to tell the story of a depressed former actor who goes to live in a housing tenement.

  4. 4 days ago · Depictions of ghosts are as diverse as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Beetlejuice, Hamlet's father, Jacob Marley, Freddy Krueger, and Moaning Myrtle, as well as the traditional spectral spirits and other bumps in the night.

  5. Jun 20, 2024 · The movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" released in 1987, Wang Zuxian played Nie Xiaoqian, Leslie Cheung played the infatuated and pretty scholar Ning Caichen, staged a poignant relationship between people and ghosts, demonstrating what a perfect "script and role complement each other", and was praised for the excellent accuracy of the ...

  6. Jul 8, 2024 · After doing a little more research, I found the series “Chinese Ghost Stories” available for sale in YesAsia ... A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) Movie Poster:

  7. Jul 1, 2024 · A Chinese Ghost Story III is a 1991 Hong Kong romantic comedy-horror film directed by Ching Siu-Tung and produced by Tsui Hark. It is the sequel to A Chinese Ghost Story and A Chinese Ghost Story II. Though technically a distant sequel, the plot is more of a retelling of the original A Chinese Ghost Story.