A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997)

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A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.

Date of release
1997-07-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Adventure
Director
Andrew Chen Wei-Wen

Casting

Interesting facts

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation is a 1997 fantasy animated film directed by Andrew Chan, written and produced by Tsui Hark. It is a spin-off and reimagining of the 1987 live-action film A Chinese Ghost Story and its sequels. The film was a co-production between Hark's Film Workshop and Japanese animation studio Triangle Staff.

Production

The story is loosely based on a short story titled Nie Xiaoqian from the ancient Chinese literary work Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. Despite its title, the film has no narrative relationship to the A Chinese Ghost Story film series that were produced by Tsui Hark between 1987 and 1991. The films title in Hong Kong refers to the Shine's name in Chinese.

The director of the film was Andrew Chan. Chan had worked in animated television series in Japan and had eight years experience of making animated television commercials. The film had a budget of HK$40 million, an amount that was expensive for a Hong Kong film production and also took much longer than the average Hong Kong film to make, where it took four years to create. The characters were designed by the Hong Kong-based Frankie Chung.

The films script for the English dub was by Trish Ledoux. It was dubbed into English by Ocean Productions.

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