A Chinese Ghost Story

(1987)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 350 votes

Genres: Fantasy, Action

Year: 1987

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: Hong Kong

Director: 程小東

Cast: 張國榮, 王祖賢, У Ма, 劉兆銘, 林威, 薛芷倫, 胡大為, 王晶, 黃蝦, 史美儀

Plot

A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.

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')...