A Chinese Ghost Story
October 20, 2026
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. New 4K restoration of the beloved cult classic fantasy.
After a string of bad luck, a debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a ravishing female ghost and later battles to save her soul from the control of a wicked tree demon.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
Part of Grand Illusion's Hong Kong Cinema Classics series.
Special live intro from local Hong Kong genre film connoisseur and one of the programmers of the Seattle Film Society, Patrick McFarland.
“…hard to top for stylistic boldness, vivid pictorialism, and dramatic power.” — Ted Shen, Chicago Reader
“Blending every genre under the sun into a film that feels like a permanent sugar rush, this action horror classic was perfecting wire-fu long before Western audiences knew what it was.”—Justin Bowyer, Empire
- Director: Ching Siu-tung
- Principal Cast: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma, Lau Siu-Ming, David Lam Wai
- Country: Hong Kong
- Year: 1987
- Running Time: 96 min.
- Language: Cantonese with English subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes