Chinese Ghost Story #1 DVD 2011 Remake
2011 Remake. 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. 109 min. Mandarin language. English subtitled.
