"Ground-breaking fantasy based on the ghost stories of the popular Ming Dynasty writer Pu Song-ling. Leslie Cheung plays a naive young tax collector who takes shelter in a haunted temple and falls in love with a beautiful ghost (Joey Wong), herself the captive of a thousand-year-old tree demon with a life-sapping tongue. Coming to the couple's aid is a Taoist monk who battles the evil spirits with sword and scripture." - Fredric Dannen, Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East
“The quintessential merger of the traditional Chinese ghost story with the Hong Kong pop sensibility.” - Barbara Scharres
Screening as part of our Hong Kong Cinema Classics series
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