Nieh realises what a good heart Ning has and the two fall into a doomed love. The ghost Nieh Hsaio-Tsing (Joey Wang) is forced to lure men for her Mistress, Old Evil (Siu-Ming Lau), and in three days will be forced to marry the demonic Lord Black. The story is simple and as such becomes quite elegant – a bumbling but pure and innocent tax collector, Ning Tsai-Shen (Leslie Cheung), stays in an abandoned temple that houses both a disillusioned Taoist swordsman, Yin (Ma Wu), and a host of ghosts. It is beautifully shot, with wonderfully choreographed fights. ![]() ![]() The reasoning? Well it has it all it is quite a touching romance, with comedy aplenty plus action and horror in liberal doses. This Hong Kong movie from 1987, directed by Siu-Tung Ching, is one of my favourite movies to come out of that region.
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