A Chinese Ghost Story 4K 1987 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Lin, a wandering scholar, stumbles into an enchanted forest late at night, where he meets a ghostly girl named Sian. This fleeting encounter marks the beginning of a passionate romance, but Xian has a malevolent mentor who disapproves of relationships between humans and ghosts. Even Lin’s protector—a brave Taoist whom the young man met along the way—though sympathetic to the lovers, also believes their love is doomed.

Review 4K Movie

Director Ching Siu Tung throws everything but his kitchen sink into this epic (and almost indescribable) adventure, creating not only the definitive Hong Kong movie experience but also perhaps the world's first musical-romance-martial arts-action-comedy. Key ingredients include a pack of spectral wolves; some animated rotting corpses, a ghost-busting Zen swordsman, a transvestite vampire with a voracious tongue the length of the Great Wall, a beautiful spirit under a terrible curse, and an all-too human pilgrim whose bumbling innocence is the perfect defense against every supernatural peril. The film is an ideal antidote for the post-summer blockbuster doldrums: it's fast, furious, totally ridiculous and, despite some oddly translated subtitles ('scary' becoming 'scareful', and so forth), one heck of a lot of fun.