The Ghost Story (1979) (original) (raw)

Helmed by the late great Li Han Hsiang, the director of period classics The Love Eterne, Reign Behind the Curtain, and The Burning of the Imperial Palace, 1979's The Ghost Story is an interesting title in the director's filmography. The film is based on a classic folk tale from Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi, a Qing Dynasty collection of ghost stories that has been adapted countless times. Ngok Wah takes on two roles in this eerie period erotica, playing a cunning general and an amorous scholar who become entangled in a dangerous liaison of seduction and vengeance with a female ghost.

Helmed by the late great Li Han Hsiang, the director of period classics The Love Eterne, Reign Behind the Curtain, and The Burning of the Imperial Palace, 1979's The Ghost Story is an interesting title in the director's filmography. The film is based on a classic folk tale from Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi, a Qing Dynasty collection of ghost stories that has been adapted countless times. Ngok Wah takes on two roles in this eerie period erotica, playing a cunning general and an amorous scholar who become entangled in a dangerous liaison of seduction and vengeance with a female ghost. (less)

Director: Han Hsiang Li
Writers: Songling Pu, Han Hsiang Li
Starring: Yueh Hua, Chin Hu, Shirley Yu, Chiao Chiao, Fung Ging-Man, Kung-Wu Huang
Producer: Runme Shaw

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