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Spiritual Love (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Spiritual Love', also known as 'Ghost Bride' or 'The Phantom Bride' is a 1987 Hong Kong fantasy comedy film directed by David Lai and Taylor Wong and starring Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung, Pauline Wong and Deanie Ip.
Plot
A man named Pu Yung-tsai lives with his cousin who is a student Feng shui and Maoshan. Yung-tsai buys an antique desk from a second-hand shop and inside is a suicide letter written by a young woman called Wei Hsiao-tieh. Yung-tsai replies to the letter and gives up 3 years of his life, so the woman is able to come back to Earth as a ghost and get away from her forced marriage in the afterlife. When Yung-tsai splits up with his girlfriend, May, because he caught her having an affair, he begins a relationship with Hsiao-tieh. May wants to get back together with Yung-tsai because her rich boyfriend has dumped her and she is pregnant. She stages a fake suicide attempt to win back Yung-tsai but it backfires and she dies.Plot
May then returns as a ghost in a night club and Yung-tsai, his cousin, his cousin's mentor and his friend attempt to get rid of her spirit. She chases them all around the club trying to kill them. Hsiao-tieh makes a deal with her husband to go back to him, if he will save Yung-tsai and his friends. The husband then turns up and consumes May's ghost before returning to his own realm with Hsiao-tieh.
Cast
*Chow Yun-fat as Pu Yung-tsaiList of cast
*Cherie Chung as Wei Hsiao-tieh
*Pauline Wong as May
*Deanie Ip as Sai Chin-hua
*Hon Yee-sang as King Ghost
*Alex Ng as Pu's deaf-mute friend
*Paul Chun as Pu's boss
*Luk Yik-sang
*Luk Ying-hung as policeman
*Yu Kwok-lok as hotel manager
*Fung Yuen-chi as gangster
*Kan Tat-wah as bodyguard
*Fan Wing-wah as thug
*Lee Hang as Taoist
*Hung San-nam as bodyguard
*Jackson Ng as bodyguard
*Tang Chiu-yau as bodyguard
*Wong Wai-fai as bodyguard
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