Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE EVENT:** 3:00pm | **A CHINESE GHOST STORY** 4:45pm | **A ****CHINESE GHOST STORY**** II** 6:30pm | **A ****CHINESE GHOST STORY**** III** *Start times are approximate. There will be brief (approximately 5-10 minute) intermissions between films. Ticket includes entry to all films in triple feature.* ### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **A CHINESE GHOST STORY, 1987, Dir. Ching Siu-tung, 98 Mins, Shout! Studios, Hong Kong** *In Cantonese with English subtitles.* Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence (or ‘yang element’)… FORMAT: DCP **A ****CHINESE GHOST STORY**** II, 1990, Dir. ****Ching Siu-tung****, 104 Mins, Shout! Studios, Hong Kong** *In Cantonese with English subtitles.* In this installment of a phenomenal saga of the supernatural, four young people are caught in a tug-o-war of evil between an Imperial Wizard and a corrupt General. Outrageous special effects galore! FORMAT: DCP **A ****CHINESE GHOST STORY****, 1991, Dir. ****Ching Siu-tung**** and ****Tsui Hark, 104 Mins, Shout! Studios, Hong Kong** *In Cantonese with English subtitles.* The evil Tree Spirit is back with yet another ghost played by Joey Wong. The Swordsman Yen and Leslie Cheung characters are replaced by a Buddhist Abbot and disciple (Tony Leung). Jacky Cheung also pops up again, this time as a money-grabbing swordsman with a neat bag of tricks. FORMAT: DCP