{"id":15976,"date":"2023-10-23T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2023-10-22T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T18:19:36","slug":"a-chinese-ghost-story-1987-ching-siu-tung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15976","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-Tung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad move to watch an awesome HK movie near the start of Shocktober, because now I&#8217;m off-mission listing HK movies I need to see, considering a TsuiHarkTober rebrand.  Leslie Cheung, incompetent in his job as a tax collector, is told he can sleep for free in the spooky old temple infested by stop-motion skeletal zombies.  Meanwhile <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14354\">White Snake<\/a> herself, Joey Wong, is a hot ghost girl doomed by a giant tree called Old Evil to lure men into becoming new stop-motion skeletal zombies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joey with her evil stepmom:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/chinaghost1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bearded guy killed your sister.  Let&#8217;s report him.&#8221;  Wu Ma is in every kung fu movie but gets a rare big role here as the bearded guy.  After Leslie meets the hot girl (Hsiao-tsing, aka Siu Sin, which sounds just like &#8220;Susan&#8221;) he gets the bearded guy invested in rescuing her soul and defeating the spirit so she can be reincarnated.  They spend a long time fighting a gigantic tongue in the woods&#8230; cool movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/chinaghost2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad move to watch an awesome HK movie near the start of Shocktober, because now I&#8217;m off-mission listing HK movies I need to see, considering a TsuiHarkTober rebrand. Leslie Cheung, incompetent in his job as a tax collector, is told he can sleep for free in the spooky old temple infested by stop-motion skeletal zombies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,3172,110,32,54,2890,2117,590,2980,1979,100],"class_list":["post-15976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-ching-siu-tung","tag-ghosts","tag-hong-kong","tag-horror","tag-joey-wong","tag-leslie-cheung","tag-stop-motion","tag-trees","tag-tsui-hark","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15976\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}