Title | : | A Chinese Ghost Story |
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Release | : | 1987 |
Rating | : | 7.4 |
Language | : | Cantonese |
Runtime | : | 98 |
Genre | : | Action,Fantasy,Horror |
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
Songling Pu, Kai-Chi Yuen