![]() With good reason, it turns out: his fellow guests include duelling Taoist monks, Harryhausen-esque hordes of the undead, and an otherworldly female spirit (Joey Wang) with an unfortunate knack of killing her lovers. ![]() A klutzy, unworldly debt collector (played by Leslie Cheung, later the star of Farewell My Concubine) elects to spend a night in a temple even the locals describe as "creepy and old". Produced by Tsui Hark for director Ching Siu Tung, A Chinese Ghost Story might more accurately be titled A Chinese Love Story or A Chinese Shaggy-Dog Tale, although there are elements of all three titles in there: it's the highest-profile Hong Kong martial-arts movie to bear comparison to those Bollywood masalas throwing everything at the screen save the kitchen sink.
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