1987 · fantasy · romance · horror
A Chinese Ghost Story
Directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung1h 35m1987
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.
Our read: A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive fantasy · romance · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured fantasy / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- inventive
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