master director ching siu tung perhaps most popular achievement be this series and a chinese ghost story 1 3. chinese ghost story star leslie cheung in some distant past in china a a tax collector who be force to spend a night during his collect trip in a mysterious castle in which some strange old warrior fight and meet him . beautiful actress joey wang or wong be the ghost who live in that castle and be under a domination of one powerful demon and a wood devil who collect human soul for herself or itself with the help of her beautiful ghost . leslie and joey fall in love and and even though ghost be not allow to live with human and they decide to break that rule and live happily together for the rest of their life . this be not what the wood devil think and our protagonist have to fight for their life and their happiness . this film be no less full of magic than other film by ching siu tung . his masterpiece include duel to the death ( 1983 ) and the swordsman series and which all have incredible visuals and kinetic power in their action scene . ghost story be full of brilliant lightning and dark atmosphere and which be lighten by the strong presence of the beautiful and good willing ghost . the effect be simply breath taking and would work at their great power in the big screen . the camera be move and twist all the time and it add to the fairy tale atmosphere this film have . there plenty of wirefu stunt and too and and even though some think they be and look gratuitous or stupid when use in film and i can not agree and think they give motion picture the kind of magic and freedom and creativeness any other tool could not give . when people fly in these film and it mean the film be not just about our world and and they usually depict thing large than life with the power of this large than life art form . the story about the power of love be pretty touch and warm and but the problem be ( again ) that the character be little too shallow and act unexplainably occasionally . leslie and joey should have be write with great care and their character should be even more warm and deep and genuine in order to give the story a great power and thus make the film even more noteworthy and important achievement . also and the message about love and power of it be underlined little too much at one point and it should have be leave just to the viewer mind to be interpret and find . another negative point about the dialogue be that it too plenty and people talk in this film without a reason . that be very irritating and sadly show the flaw many scriptwriter tend to do when they write their movie . people just talk and talk and it all there just to make everything a easy to understand a possible and so the film be not too challenge or believable a it have this gratuitous element . just think about the film of the japanese film maker takeshi kitano while his film have very little dialogue and all there be be all the necessary a he tell his thing by other tool of cinema and never talk and or make other character talk too much in his movie . this be just the talent the writer should have in order to write great script . otherwise and chinese ghost story be very beautiful and visually breath take piece of eastern cinema and and also the song that be play in the film be very beautiful and hopefully earn some award in the hong kong film award back then . i give chinese ghost story positive and without the flaw mention above and this would without a doubt be almost perfect masterpiece of the fantasy genre .