{"id":18112,"date":"2025-11-03T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:23:49","slug":"a-chinese-ghost-story-iii-1991-ching-siu-tung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18112","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991, Ching Siu-Tung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Leung is our buffoon young monk, taking over while Leslie was off filming <em>Once a Thief<\/em>.  Jackie Cheung returns as the swordsman and Joey Wong as the ghost, but I can&#8217;t even tell if there&#8217;s character continuity (it does open with the title &#8220;100 years later&#8221;) or if they keep remaking <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15976\">part one<\/a> with the same cast and different action scenes.  Either way, <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16961\">all three<\/a> movies are wonderful and mad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/chinaghost301.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Tony and his Master are hiding out at the dilapidated temple after greedy townspeople glimpsed their golden buddha, where Tony falls for Joey but has to keep his ghost gf a secret from his ghost-banishing master.  Introduced giving each other sexy tattoos, Joey has a frenemy in Nina &#8220;Wife of Jet&#8221; Li, both of them in the power of the Tree Demon Priestess.  Epic fights and aggressive praying ensue, but mostly&#8230; tongues.  Evil ghosts have mile-long tongues, and the tongue-POV shots kill me every time.  I guess Tony ascends from the earthly plane and becomes the new golden buddha to save them all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/chinaghost302.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/chinaghost303.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Leung is our buffoon young monk, taking over while Leslie was off filming Once a Thief. Jackie Cheung returns as the swordsman and Joey Wong as the ghost, but I can&#8217;t even tell if there&#8217;s character continuity (it does open with the title &#8220;100 years later&#8221;) or if they keep remaking part one with [&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":[451,200,3172,110,3345,2890,1766,1744,181,2116],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-china","tag-ching-siu-tung","tag-ghosts","tag-jackie-cheung","tag-joey-wong","tag-kung-fu","tag-monks","tag-sequel","tag-tony-leung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","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=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18121,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions\/18121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}