It isn’t quite as completely demented as Mr Vampire, but it is truly strange. Director Ching Siu-Tung also delivers touching romance, spotlighting the winsome charm and very sexy ankles of Wong Tsu Hsien, gorgeous imagery as twenty-foot veils flutter in supernatural winds while ghosts flit hither and yon, some farcical comedy involving cowardly humans, more-or-less useless sub-titles on the export version (for instance, 'she's in danger' is translated as 'she's dangerous') and even a handful of songs. The evil tree has promised Hsiao-Tsing in marriage to a particularly unpleasant demon, Lord Black, and that Tsai-Shen has to go to Hell to rescue her.Ĭhinese ghosts leap around, bouncing off walls and trees like pinballs, and are possessed of ridiculous but deadly appendages like the fearsome tongue featured here or the cloud of long-haired, voraciously gnawing severed heads Lord Black unleashes against our hero. A simple story of a decent young man in love with a ghost gets more complicated when it turns out that Hsiao-Tsing is bound in fealty to a 100-year-old hermaphrodite tree spirit with a deadly mile-long tongue, and is forced to entrap passing men so the killer tree can suck them of their yang elements (turning them into withered zombies who lurk in the basement).
(Chinese Stdy PN1993.5.C4.C463 2003 Main Stack PN1993.5.C4.The first Chinese horror film to get much of a release in the West, though it’s a summation of its genre rather than a truly innovative picture. A "Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man." In: Chinese films in focus : 25 new takes / edited by Chris Berry. A unique blending of comedy, horror, action, and romance that feels like an offbeat parody of Mizoguchis Ugetsu, A Chinese Ghost Story is a film bizarrely. 4, p202-218, 17p Full-text of this article / review is available:Berkeley users only Zou, John.
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(Chinese Stdy PN1993.5.C4.C463 2003 Main Stack PN1993.5.C4.C463 2003) Find the latest news, discussion, and photos of A Chinese Ghost Story II - Movie online now. A "Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man." In: Chinese films in focus : 25 new takes / edited by Chris Berry. The ghost woman embodies every desirable trait of femininity in conventional definition: beauty. 4, p202-218, 17p Full-text of this article / review is available:Berkeley users only A Chinese Ghost Story exemplifies an anxiety of gender identity. WE CURRENTLY HAVE 2 IMAGES IN THIS SECTION. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia (Yin. 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. (1987) Ning Tsai-Shen (Ning Choi-san), 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. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) A Chinese Ghost Story.
"What to Fear and How to Protect Yourself Daoism and Hong Kong Horror Movies." Journal of Daoist Studies 2011, Vol. A Chinese Ghost Story Fanart Released: 1987 - ID: 30421. Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Credits and other information from the Internet Movie DatabaseĬahill, Suzanne. When he meets the lovely maiden Nip Siu-sin. The story of Ning Tsai-chen, a Chinese scholar who befriends and falls in love with Nieh Hsiao-chien, a she-ghost captured and tyrannized by the Tree Ogre. In this martial arts film, Ning Choi-san (Leslie Cheung), a traveling tax collector, takes shelter for the night in an abandoned temple. Featuring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma.