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South China Morning Post

How Tsui Hark and Tony Ching followed up on the classic fantasy film A Chinese Ghost Story

Directed by Tony Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark, A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) set the style for the colourful fantasy martial arts films of the 1990s. Advertisement The story, set in a mythical China, featured Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing as a naive debt collector who falls in love with a beautiful ghost played by Joey Wong Cho-yee. Here we look at two very different sequels Tsui produced. A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997) Animations have never been a favourite of Hong Kong producers, despite the popularity of Japanese anime in the city. This 1997 Tsui Hark -produced production, coming a few years before the McDull films , was the first local animated film. It keeps the bare bones of the original storyline, but makes it more appealing to younger teens by focusing on a virginal romance, with lots of anime-style ghosts and monsters. The main theme of a female ghost (voiced by Anita Yuen Wing-yee ) seeking to lay her spirit to rest with the help of her mortal lover ( Jan Lamb Hoi-fung ) is the same. But the similarity stops there. Tsui's main concern is whizz-bang cartoon action with characters and style in the vein of the Japanese Dragonball Z anime series, which was popular on local television at the time. A still from A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997). Photo: Film Workshop 'The animated version sees Tsui remould the story for a young 1990s audience,' this writer wrote in the Post in 1997. 'It is action-packed, mixing the ghostly atmosphere of the original with some anime style characters and wild computer-generated effects.