Spiritual Love (film)
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Spiritual Love, also known as Gui xin niang or The Phantom Bride is a 1987 Hong Kong romance horror film directed by David Lai and Taylor Wong.

Plot


A man called Pu Yung Tsai lives with his cousin who is a student Feng Shui and Mao Shan. Pu Yung Tsai buys an antique desk from a from a second-hand shop and inside is a suicide letter written by a young woman called Wei Hsiao Tieh. Pu Yung Tsai replies to the letter and gives up 3 years of his life, so the woman is able to come back to earth and get away from her forced marriage. Then Pu Yung Tsai splits up with his girlfriend May because he caught her having an affair. Pu Yung Tsai then begins a relationship with the Wei Hsiao Tieh. Afterwards May wants to get back together with Pu Yung Tsai because her rich boyfriend has dumped her. She stages a suicide for Pu Yung Tsai benefit but it backfires and she dies.

She then returns as a ghost in a night club and Pu Yung Tsai, his cousin , his cousin's master and his friend attempted to get rid of her spirit. She chases them all around the club trying to kill them but then Wei Hsiao Tieh turns up after making a deal with her husband to go back to him, if he will get rid of May's ghost. The husband then turns up and eats May and then returns back to his own realm.

Cast

  • Chow Yun-Fat
    Chow Yun-Fat
    Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...

     - Pu Yung Tsai
  • Cherie Chung
    Cherie Chung
    Cherie Chung Chor-hung is a retired Hong Kong film actress.She is one of the top actresses in Hong Kong Film 1980s.InHakka descent, she participated in the Miss Hong Kong competition but won nothing...

     - Wei Hsiao Tieh
  • Pauline Wong - May
  • Deannie Yip - Sai Chin Hua*Hon Yee-Sang
  • Alex Ng - Pu's deaf-mute friend
  • Paul Chun Pui- Pu's boss

VHS

Release date
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14 August 2001 United States Unknown Tai Seng Entertainment NTSC Cantonese English

VCD

Release date
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Unknown Hong Kong N/A Deltamac (HK) NTSC Cantonese, Mandarin English, Chinese 2VCDs
12 July 2005 Hong Kong N/A Universe Laser (HK) NTSC Cantonese, Mandarin English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs
1 June 2006 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales(HK) NTSC Cantonese, Mandarin English, Traditional Chinese 2VCDs

DVD

Release date
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Classifaction
Publisher
Format
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Language
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1 January 2000 Hong Kong N/A Universe Laser (HK) NTSC ALL Cantonese, Mandarin Unknown English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French
24 March 2000 Japan N/A Pioneer LDC NTSC 2 Cantonese Unknown English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
17 July 2001 United States N/A Tai Seng NTSC ALL Cantonese Dolby English
13 July 2003 Hong Kong N/A Joy Sales (HK) NTSC ALL Cantonese, Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
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