Product Details

• Actors: Leslie Cheung Kwok wing, Joey Wong, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wu Ma, Jacky Cheung Hok Yau
• Directors: Ching Siu Tung, Tsui Hark
• Format: DVD Region, NTSC, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Subtitled, Collector's Edition, Box set, Restored
• Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Joy Sales/Fortune Star
• Run Time: 307 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HPVNQI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,192 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars All 3 Chinese Ghost Story movies remastered!, September 23, 2007

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morgoth "we lamas are traditional enemies of ... (omaha, NE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Ghost Story (Collector's Remastered Edition) trilogy boxset (DVD)

#1-

Joey Wong plays a ghost who kills men for her master Old Evil. Her newest victim is Leslie Cheung who plays a scholar and he comes to town to collect money for his job, but him and Joey Wong end up falling in love. But Joey Wong is supposed to be marrying Lord Black. Luckily Leslie Cheung made friends with a Taoist swordsman played by Wu Ma and he tries his best to help the couple stay together.

I went into this expecting nothing so maybe that is why I was so blown away. The relationship between Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong is actually believable. Leslie Cheung comes across as such a caring person and Joey Wong can't kill him even though she has to or else she will be killed. Even when Leslie Cheung finds out he is in love with a ghost he can't change his mind about someone he has already fallen in love with.

Wu Ma also gives a great performance. This is the best role I have ever seen from him, and he has been around forever.

The action is good but that is not what this movie is about. This is a love story, not a fighting movie, so don't go into this expecting any hardcore action.

4/5


#2-

The story continues, but Joey Wong plays a different character. Somehow she was reincarnated and this is the main problem with the movie for me. I wanted to see Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung continue their relationship, but instead Leslie Cheung comes to the realization that she is not the ghost he fell in love with in the first movie. Joey Wong plays a mortal and she and others are trying to rescue Ku feng from being executed. The cast is a lot stronger than the first movie but the story isn't nearly as good.

2.5/5


#3-

After being disappointed by part 2, I was very happy to see Joey Wong return as a ghost in part 3. I don't know what they were thinking with part 2 but part 3 is the sequel I was looking for. Once again her job as a ghost is to seduce men so that her evil master can eat their spirits.

Tong Leung (from Hard Boiled) plays a Buddhist monk who is on a journey with his master to deliver a golden Buddha. They get attacked by Joey Wong's evil master and Joey Wong tries to save Tony Leung from the demon. Even though Tony is a Buddhist he can't hide his love for the ghost.

Jacky Cheung makes a welcome return after starring in part 2, and he helps Tony Leung retrieve his golden Buddha after it was stolen. Tony Leung's master has been captured by the demon and Tony is supposed to repair the golden Buddha and then come back to save his master. Instead he gets it stolen and it ends up getting melted into a blob instead of a Buddha. He doesn't know if the Buddha will still have its magical powers but he has to go and save his master. Luckily Jacky Cheung comes along to help him for a very exciting ending.

The relationship between Tony Leung and Joey wong is just as beautiful as the relationship that Joey Wong had with Leslie Cheung. There is a lot more comedy than parts 1 and 2 and also a lot of great one-liners. The biggest difference is that this movie is completely insane. Tongues go into peoples stomachs, the evil demon is some sort of crazy tree monster, and there are some epic magic battles. Fun doesn't even begin to describe it. This is my favorite movie in the 3 part series.

4/5

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and quick !, August 29, 2011

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Arafinwe Ingalaure "Finarfin" (Tirion upon Tuna) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Chinese Ghost Story (Collector's Remastered Edition) trilogy boxset (DVD)

It's a great deal, you have the three movies with a lot of audio options and english subs. The picture quality is perfect, thought the subtitles were not timed exactly for european watchers. I prefer the subs appear before the character is speaking. But it's the contrary in thoses DVDs.