A Chinese Ghost Story [Movie]
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (Chinese: ??) is a 1997 Hong Kong animated film. It was the first Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong. It was written and produced by Tsui Hark and his production company, Film Workshop. It is also referred to as “Xiao Qian”, “Little Pretty”, “Chinese Ghost Story Xiao Qian”.
Contents
[hide] 1 Background
2 Story
3 Characters
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links
[edit] Background
The production time lasted 4 years with computer CGI being used as graphical enhancements. It was debuted at the Toronto Film Festival.1 The story is loosely based on the ancient Chinese literary work Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. It was dubbed into English by Ocean Productions and licensed by Viz Media and Geneon Entertainment.
[edit] Story
Tax collector Ning wanders the land with his pet dog Solid Gold grieving over his lost love Siu Lan, who dumps him over another man. He goes on, and along the way, he runs into two monks, White Cloud and Ten Miles. The two Buddhist monks, who appear to be trying to purify unholy spirits and send them to the underworld, are on rivalry with another ghostbuster, Red Beard. After a meeting and a hasty farewell to the monks who leave, Ning continues his journey.
Somehow, at night, Ning enters a ghost town, inhabited by many different monsters, ghouls and spirits. He tries to adjust himself in the street life there, but he realises that it is hard to fit in the life of the dead. Just then he gawks at a beautiful lady called Shine in a carriage scene like royalty and he falls in love with her. Unknown to him, Shine is an agent of Madame Trunk, an evil tree spirit who devours life forces from anything. Ning follows Shine and tries to acquaint with her, but Shine is at first cunning and was thinking of selling him to Madame Trunk, with help of her friend, Butterfly. But she realises that Ning is a man who seems much more different than she thought.