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FilmNR1987
A Chinese Ghost Story
Directed by Tony Ching Siu-tung
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. From TMDB
144 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
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A Chinese Ghost Story is a 1987 fantasy action film, directed by Tony Ching Siu-tung, starring Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, Joey Wong and Wu Ma.
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60 of 144 · most liked firstPicking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #73 "A Chinese Ghost Story" (Ching Siu-tung/1987) This one has got it all, romance, action and comedy. A wonderful movie and one that I highly recommend. Check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →Whoever said Tubi has the juice was right, Just discovered that A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) is on there, a movie I saw once almost 20 years ago and loved, and haven't been able to track down to watch again until now
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987), an all-time classic Hong Kong film in which a young tax collector falls in love with the ghost of a murdered woman Produced by Tsui Hark Directed by Ching Siu-tung Starring Leslie Cheung, Wu Ma and Joey Wong - BOTD in 1967
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #191 "Picture of a Nymph" (Wu Ma/1987) I'm told this is one of the more palatable clones of A Chinese Ghost Story. I'm all for a flick with Yuen Biao in it! Check it out, I sure as shit still need to 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie is A Chinese Ghost Story (1989) I'm a big fan of HK movies, I and never saw this one before, so it was a treat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Thriller Thursday evening, #FilmSky and #HorrorFam! I am now watching A Chinese Ghost Story 2 (1990), a sequel to the 1987 A Chinese Ghost Story, and I am watching this on the Shout Studio/ Hong Kong Cinema Classic Collection Blu-ray disc! #Cultember: #16/30 #Horror365Challenge: #151/365
neutral · AI labelView post →#watched A CHINESE GHOST STORY III (1991) A young monk's loyalties are tested when his master sets forth to hunt the demons inhabiting an abandoned temple, including the beautiful (and not so demonic) one who has earned the young monk's affection.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching The Enchanting Shadow (1960, Li Han-hsiang). A take on the same tale later adapted as A Chinese Ghost Story
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting tonight off strong with one I’ve wanted to see for years and could never find streaming, but it’s on tubi (tubi’s the GOAT): A Chinese Ghost Story. I’m 5 minutes in and already there’s Evil Dead cam and a decapitation by swordsman. This is going to kick ass
positive · AI labelView post →Watching A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). I love that it starts and you’re like wow what a silly and fun movie and then the goddamned stop motion corpses show up. Literally this movie has everything. Was not expecting the Beared Man to drop straight bars about the Taoist Way 📽️ #horrorsky
positive · AI labelView post →#watched A CHINESE GHOST STORY 2 (1990) This sequel lacks the soulful charm of the first film, and the plot is overly convoluted, but it's still a hugely entertaining fantasy-horror movie with plenty of action, monsters, and amusing characters.
neutral · AI labelView post →Siu-Tung Ching’s Qing Dynasty-set A CHINESE GHOST STORY sparked a long-running trend for ghost stories in Hong Kong’s booming film industry. See the one that started it all Aug 22-28 in Hong Kong Cinema Classics, presented by @gkids.com & @shoutstudios.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Drop a HORROR HOTTIE 🥵🖤😱 Joey Wong from the A Chinese Ghost Story movie series (1987-1991)
neutral · AI labelView post →33. A Chinese Ghost Story: This movie RIPS! Evil Dead meets Hong Kong wuxia. Cool special fx and insane action. 34. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Still one of my fave slasher movies. Amazing atmosphere and it looks great. 35. House: I feel bad that I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would 😭
positive · AI labelView post →Good Ghostly Martial Arts Monday evening, everyone! I am now watching/rewatching A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991) on the Hong Kong Cinema Classic Blu-ray edition disc, and this is my final movie to watch for the Cultember challenge. #Cultember: #40/30 #Horror365Challenge: #172/365 #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Create a Vampire Film Festival seeded with your name: Scars of Dracula Alucarda Requiem for a Vampire A Chinese Ghost Story Habit
neutral · AI labelView post →Very happy I was able to introduce more of my friends to such a personal favourite film of mine. All you need to know about A Chinese Ghost Story? There's a scene where a Daoist monk raps about the power of the Dao, against gothic backlighting. It rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5km...
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 2: Movie Character Wears Something White A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
neutral · AI labelView post →The new 4K restoration of A CHINESE GHOST STORY is tomorrow at 730pm at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center! Special live intro from local Hong Kong genre film connoisseur @pattymcf.bsky.social of the Seattle Film Society. grandillusioncinema.org/film/a-chine...
neutral · AI labelView post →Good Thriller Thursday evening, #MutantFam! I am now watching the 5th movie for my Cultember challenge, and that movie is A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). I am watching this on the Shout Factory Hong Kong Cinema Classic Edition Blu-ray. 👻👹🐲🐲🐲👹👻 #Cultember: #5/30 #Horror365Challenge: #141/365 #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave film for each year of the 1990s 1990: A Chinese Ghost Story II 1991: Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves 1992: Hard Boiled 1993: Fong Sai Yuk 1994: Whatever You Want 1995: Desperado 1996: Forbidden City Cop 1997: LA Confidential 1998: Knock Off 1999: King of Comedy
neutral · AI labelView post →Midway through A CHINESE GHOST STORY and man, this movie fuckin' rules.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm generally not a fan of horror. So people might find it weird that I love "A Chinese Ghost Story" (Hong Kong, 1987). Except that it's much less of a horror movie and more a supernatural romance with lots of action and comedy elements! 😅
positive · AI labelView post →This is spectacular news. I don't really mean the usual John Woo twofer which I've seen and owned over the years in various formats, but films like Tsui Hark's masterpiece "Peking Opera Blues," "A Chinese Ghost Story," trilogy, the elusive "Bullet in the Head" etc. WORLDWIDE rights. 👀 🔥 #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 2️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ A CHINESE GHOST STORY: THE TSUI HARK ANIMATION (1997) dir. Andrew Chan An animated adaptation of Pu Songling's story. Co-production by Film Workshop (Hong Kong) and Triangle Staff (Japan). #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched "A Chinese Ghost Story" is definitely the surprise hit of the group!
positive · AI labelView post →Closing out the 11-film Hong Kong Cinema Classics retrospective with A CHINESE GHOST STORY III. I’m happy to hear from the program director that the series has been successful enough that they’re open to booking more Hong Kong movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sat. MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS 11am LF3 4K! MASTER AND COMMANDER 2pm Egyptian 4K! A CHINESE GHOST STORY Triple 3pm Aero HALF MOON 4pm LF3 Etheria Short Film Showcase + Q&A 7pm LF3 🚨 4K! BARRY LYNDON 7pm Egyptian 4K! THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE 10pm LF3 americancinematheque.com/now-showing/
neutral · AI labelView post →Gonna watch Tony Ching Siu-Tung's film "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is produced by Tsui Hark and stars Leslie Cheung so it should be a banger. 📽️ NW:
positive · AI labelView post →I consider A Chinese Ghost Story to be the movie that catalyzed my love for this stuff That movie, Buddha's Palm, The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, Dreadnaught, and New Dragon Gate Inn are my personal top five, still unchanged, though I've added another 26 films below them that are also great!
positive · AI labelView post →HOLY SHIT I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED MY KUNG FU MOVIE ANNIVERSARY In my defense, I have memory issues + I always thought A Chinese Ghost Story was my first + technically my first HK movie was The Seventh Curse but that's not wuxia Four years of nonsense, can't wait to have even more
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I see A Chinese Ghost Story I’m taking back to that night in 1988 where a young Rob Kong left a theater a changed person. #filmsky #BlueUnderworld #DemonMadeOfHeads #KissOfLife #hashtag
positive · AI labelView post →The second annual Culture Shock festival (from the folks at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social) kicks off at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema in just two weeks. You won't find more eclectic genre programming – Possession, A Chinese Ghost Story, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, R.O.T.O.R. – anywhere else.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Chinese Ghost Story, a movie that absolutely rules, is on Tubi! I highly recommend it if you like fantasy swordplay, magic, demons, ghosts, at least one musical number, and romance. youtu.be/e0dpajscuPo?...
positive · AI labelView post →That first film was great! It was a silly fun entertaining time. Now time for A Chinese Ghost Story II! #tubituesday #tubi #horror
positive · AI labelView post →Pizza and a movie night. Pizza: Pep's Maestro Pizza: Salsiccia e Funghi Movie: A Chinese Ghost Story (d. Ching Siu-tung 1987) on the Criterion Channel
neutral · AI labelView post →35 - A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung My movie watching started with my dad showing me the Universal Monster films, and now I'm showing him some of the bonkers Hong Kong horror I've discovered. I think it's an even trade #nowwatching #horrorsky #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →ripping discs and throwing them on the plex: A CHINESE GHOST STORY trilogy a DPRK film from 1972 called THE FLOWER GIRL the ZËIЯAM duology the 2001 X-FILES spin-off series THE LONE GUNMEN
neutral · AI labelView post →A CHINESE GHOST STORY III - Pretty much a remake of the first movie with Joey Wong playing a completely different spirit enslaved by a tree demon and seducing men at an abandoned temple and Tony Leung as a bumbling monk in place of Leslie Cheung's scholar....
neutral · AI labelView post →Shocktober 8: A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987). It’s a very 1980s movie, mixing ghosts and romance, fantasy adventure and horror, with some great pre-CGI practical FX, even including a rather synthy soundtrack (my least favorite part, although it mostly worked). And there are sequels! A new favorite.
positive · AI labelView post →Some Poon Hang-sang film recommendations: the following are great to view as well as really do have beautiful cinematography - A Chinese Ghost Story (Tsui Hark, dir.) - Red Dust (Yim Ho, dir.) - Once a Thief (John Woo, dir.) - Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan, dir.) - The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, dir.)
neutral · AI labelView post →OooOOOOOoooooh! My fellow Hong Kong movie fans, we are in for a treat. "A Chinese Ghost Story" trilogy? "Peking Opera Blues”? Chow Yun-fat movies? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
neutral · AI labelView post →Mr. Vampire (1985) - HK horror comedy. A HK comedy film with horror elements, maybe my expectations were skewed by seeing that many sequels had been made for this and so it must be "that good". There are some genuinely laugh out loud moments in this, such as the scene where they meet in a fancy "western tea" house and have no idea what to do, drinking a gulp of coffee and then a gulp of cream and putting sugar on their custards like you would your coffee. But for the most part I found the humor…
neutral · AI labelView post →#JustWatched A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987, Ching Siu-Tung) Happy to say that the Arrow UHD colour grading matches the HKL - Blue Is Back, Baby! Also some gorgeous golds. The filters mask the studio lighting so that the film is dark when its supposed to be, and it looks great in 4K HDR.
positive · AI labelView post →#180. A Chinese Ghost Story III #100HorrorMoviesin92Days
neutral · AI labelView post →A Chinese Ghost Story is one of those "this film has everything" type deals. It is at times spooky, romantic, goofy, dramatic, funny, and action-filled. It is a hallmark of how great 80s Hong Kong cinema truly was. Movie 087/100 #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #Filmsky #Horrorsky #MutantFam
positive · AI labelView post →#FFF movie 8 was A Chinese Ghost Story, the movie I was looking forward to the most out of the entire line-up, never mind that it's ~40 years old. 😅 I was so hype that my first viewing would be on the big screen. Oh Leslie Cheung. ❤️💔 Absolutely loved it.
positive · AI labelView post →This illustration was made for my fanfic. Jul(lunar month) 15th is known as the “Ghost Festival” in China, so I wrote a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio AU for the occasion. Image 2 is my reference, from the wonderful film A Chinese Ghost Story. #Astarion
neutral · AI labelView post →83.A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation - A keystone movie from my childhood, I still really love it. Such a fun world and enjoyable characters. 4.5/5 letterboxd.com/unknownmamma...
positive · AI labelView post →Spent the weekend at Culture Shock festival (run by @celluloidscreams.bsky.social) and it really is a highlight of my cinema going year, such a good programme of weird films. New to me highlights included Possession, The Devil From Mill Mountain, Stinker and A Chinese Ghost Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) dir. Ching Siu-tung Watching at Austin Film Society #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →We're watching A Chinese Ghost Story for @allisfullofgore.bsky.social Sunday social and id forgotten how hard this film commits. It's maximalist in every way
positive · AI labelView post →Now that A CHINESE GHOST STORY I & II are on the Austin Film Society calendar I am feeling emboldened to pitch my double feature idea: GOD OF GAMBLERS (1989) and THE GOD OF COOKERY (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →watching A Chinese Ghost Story, this movie rules
positive · AI labelView post →just saw A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987) and the 4k release is beautiful and it's so good and funny wow what a movie!
positive · AI labelView post →This week the @grandillusioncinema.org has got Jacques Tourneur's Jane Eyre adaptation I Walked with a Zombie on Saturday and Ching Siu-tung and Tsui Hark's A Chinese Ghost Story on Tuesday, both playing at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. mailchi.mp/d6d36ec05417...
neutral · AI labelView post →We just watched “A Chinese Ghost Story” (1987) on Shudder, and can I just say this movie is a jaw-dropping masterpiece of action-fantasy-horror cinema and it’s wild that it doesn’t get talked about more often.
positive · AI labelView post →Speak of the devil, Shout Factory just dropped A Chinese Ghost Story on Youtube (presumably to coincide with a physical release) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgH... #scriptchat
neutral · AI labelView post →Look at you being ableist towards my condition. Sorry I have scar tissue on my brain that makes me violently ill when I am not watching the hit 1987 Xianxia Horror movie A Chinese Ghost Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't think I've ever watched a movie more than 3 times... Maybe Howl's Moving Castle. Possibly A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation, as well.
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