A Chinese Ghost Story I - 1
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I saw this movie in my childhood. And after 10 years I did not remember anything about this movie but I found out it I also don’t know how I was able to find out this movie. It’s my life. My all times favorite movie. My words will fall short of true meaning what I have inside for this movie. I follow this movie. It’s a brilliant mix of fantasy, comedy, romance, horror, erotic, scary and martial arts. The story about the power of love is pretty touching and warm. It’s a Chinese/Cantonese classical romantic true love story. It’s a masterpiece of Hong Kong Cinema.
Sinnui Yauman is without a doubt one of the best ghost stories ever made into film. Written by Songling Pu and directed by Siu-Tung Ching, A Chinese Ghost Story has it all. Ling Choi Sin played by Leslie Cheung is a young man down on his luck that goes in search of a monastery for lodging, deep in the woods, a place the villagers seem very afraid to go near. The trek alone is perilous with wolves, and a crazy Taoist monk lives at the temple. Ling Choi Sin meets Tsing, a beautiful and mysterious young girl who also lives nearby in a deserted temple. She is forced to seduce men for her evil mistress, but when she meets innocent Ling Choi Sin they fall in love.
Ling Choi Sin is sort of a bumbling fool but his heart is in the right place, while Tsing tries to protect him from the other spirits in the woods, he tries to protect her from the monk who is trying to kill the spirits in the woods. There’s great martial arts, even a monk that breaks out into drunken song as he performs ritual Taoist sword forms. The movie does a lot of traditional old martial art films acrobatics, with magic and flying through the air, leaping from tree to tree, with elegant long gowns and scarves, but the movie genuinely flows, and everything is effective.
Tsing is to be married to an evil tree monster, which can’t be good, and we feel her plight in her home where we meet her sisters and stepmother who is truly not nice. In the end they must fight a tree witch with a deadly tongue, and go with Yin deep into the heart of hell to fight a thousand year old evil to save their souls, and bring Ling’s ashes back to her home for a proper burial so she may have a chance at reincarnation.
A beautiful story that truly pays attention to details. One is touched in many ways by this movie; you’ll laugh, cry, and just have fun with the great martial arts and cinematography. And though at the end, Yin and Ling Choi Sin ride off into the morning sun under an enchanting rainbow, we never know if Tsing was afforded a reincarnation, but we do know her.
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what does chinese reunification have to do with anything.
Early 90’s hk were already getting pretty shitty. Late 80’s was good.
this clip isn’t even the first part of the movie. this is like 15 to 20 minutes within the movie.
ppl who want this in subs, im sure they have a cpoy at ur local dvd store lol
no,i think not
oh man i saw this bout 20 years ago ..to bad theres no subtitles i cant understand it …
can anyone upload this song*?
I wonder why they used to dub over the actor’s voices??
aiiii thankssss i love that so much XD
what is this story about anyways? i’m lost?
Must be one of the best Chinese movies ever!
Greetings from Germany.
oh i would to see this with english subbing!!!!! PLEASE!!!!
what official movie is this???????????
english sub pls.
is there a sub?
Po yeh po lo mi!!!
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is there any english subs. in this movie??? i think its interesting..
wtf is is canto isn’t chinese. Canto is a chinese language but it a dialect compared to madarin!
Chinese includs canto and canto is included
its not chinese..
its canto
????
do u know where i can find the eng sub. for it. because i really don’t understand it. LOL.
i watched this sometime around the early or mid 90s and I absolutely love it!
Beautiful artistic and sexy as only the Chinese can be. The horror in this worked really well too.