# A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

**Genres:** Action, Fantasy, Horror

**Duration:** 98 min

**Age rating:** FSK 18

**IMDb:** [7.3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093978/)

**Letterboxd:** [3.8](https://letterboxd.com/film/a-chinese-ghost-story/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 70%, Popcornmeter: 85%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chinese_ghost_story)

## Description

A debt collector has no other choice than to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he encounters a female ghost, whom he falls in love with. To save her soul he must work with a monk to defeat the tree demon who owns her spirit.

## Details


**Director:** Siu-Tung Ching

**Cast:** Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Wu Ma, Siu-Ming Lau, Wai Lam, Zhilun Xue, Jing Wong, David Wu, Huang Ha, Yau Cheung Yeung, Mei-Yee Sze, Kam Cheung

**Countries:** Hong Kong

**Languages:** Yue Chinese

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dpajscuPo)

## Showtimes in Hamburg

No cinemas are showing this movie in the original language at the moment.