Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma

In this beloved cult-classic fantasy, a traveling tax collector (Leslie Cheung) short on funds opts to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned temple. He is surprised to discover a young woman (Joey Wang) there,...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1990 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis

Romance, comedy, and extraordinary fantasy collide in this vibrant sequel to A CHINESE GHOST STORY, which finds our innocent tax-collector hero (Leslie Cheung) now falsely imprisoned. Upon escaping, he...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1991 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung, Joey Wong

The dazzlingly imaginative A CHINESE GHOST STORY trilogy concludes with this sumptuous finale. In many ways a retelling of the original film’s story, A CHINESE GHOST STORY III sees Joey Wang repri...

Directed by Dennis Yu • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Lau Kar-leung, Tang Lai Ying, Mark Cheng

Bonkers even by the anything-goes standards of Hong Kong genre cinema, this head-spinning killer-kitty horror comedy bursts with outrageous supernatural shenanigans and off-the-wall action. Every fifty yea...

Directed by Sammo Hung • 1980 • Hong Kong
Starring Sammo Hung, Paul Chung Fat, Wu Ma

The great Sammo Hung wrote, directed, and stars in this outrageously entertaining Hong Kong cinema landmark—one of the first HK horror-comedy-action hybrids and the film that launched the hopping-vampire craze t...

Directed by Ricky Lau • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Ricky Hui, Chin Siu-Ho

The film that, along with producer Sammo Hung’s SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS, launched an entire hopping-vampire horror-comedy subgenre is Hong Kong cinema at its most gleefully inventive and gloriously unrestrained. T...

Directed by Ricky Lau • 1986 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Yuen Biao, Moon Lee Choi-Fung

The first of the numerous sequels to follow in the wake of the blockbuster success of MR. VAMPIRE puts a fresh twist on the hopping-vampire mythology by bringing the bounding baddies into the present ...

Directed by Ricky Lau • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Lam Ching-Ying, Richard Ng, Billy Lau

The third installment of the unstoppable MR. VAMPIRE series offers up some of the wildest gags and most eye-popping action in the entire franchise. This time around, we follow the exploits of charlatan ghost ...

Directed by Ricky Lau • 1988 • Hong Kong
Starring Wu Ma, Loletta Lee, Chin Ka-Lok

The fourth MR. VAMPIRE film may just be the most gloriously goofy of the bunch—and that’s saying something. Leaning heavily into the unrepentantly silly comedy that always made the series so much fun, this installm...

Directed by Stanley Kwan • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man Chi-leung

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering...