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A Chinese Ghost Story is a 1987 supernatural ghost story, a remake of Li Han-shiang’s Enchanting Shadow, which originally adapted The Magic Sword, a story by Pu Song-ling. Tsui Hark, largely credited with the reinvention of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s, produced, with Ching Siu-Tung directing. The film holds an honored place as one of the best and best-beloved of Hong Kong supernatural fantasy action tales.

A naive young scholar named Ning Tsai-shen (Leslie Cheung), working as a tax collector, comes to town to do his job. In a world of violent and greedy men, he is a gentle soul, unwilling to eat food from a murdering swordsman even though he's starving. In town, he fails miserably at collecting taxes, then finds abandoned Lan Ro temple to spend the night in—where he blunders into the middle of a sword battle between the swordsman from earlier and Taoist monk Yen Che-hsia (Wu Ma), who warns him not to stay at Lan Ro.

The temple is haunted, of course, by restive spirit Nieh Hsiao-tsing (Joey Wong) who's enslaved to a thousand-year-old tree demon. Hsiao-tsing is supposed to seduce Ning and then consume his life essence for