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A
Chinese Ghost Story 2 |
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Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung |
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Year: |
1990 |
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Director: |
Ching
Siu-Tung |
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Producer: |
Tsui
Hark |
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Action: |
Ching
Siu-Tung |
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Cast: |
Leslie
Cheung Kwok-Wing, Joey
Wong Cho-Yin, Jacky
Cheung Hok-Yau, Michelle
Reis (Lee Ka-Yan), Waise
Lee Chi-Hung, Wu Ma,
Lau Shun, Lau
Siu-Ming, Tin Kai-Man |
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The
Skinny: |
Not
a necessary sequel, but still an enjoyable and audience-friendly
one. The stars of the original return and Ching Siu-Tung
and Tsui Hark refuse to mess with the formula. Good
fun. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
This sequel
to the ground-breaking Chinese Ghost Story is
good fun, if not entirely necessary. After losing Sian
(Joey Wong) in the first film, Ning (Leslie Cheung)
bumps into dead ringer Windy (also Joey Wong), who’s
trying to save her dad (Lau Siu-Ming) from evil government
bastards.
Plot devices occur when Windy
and her compatriots believe Ning to be a wise elder;
Ning plays along to discover just why Windy looks exactly
like his departed ghost love. Jacky Cheung appears as
Autumn, a Taoist monk who aids Ning, and the amazingly
beautiful Michelle Reis is Moon, Windy's sister. Waise
Lee manages to luck into a great role as the military
general chasing Windy and company.
Overall this is an entertaining
flick that provides the same type of action, comedy
and romance that made the first film so popular. As
such, it isn't as good, mostly because it can't mach
the first film's originality or ability to surprise.
Still, it's worth checking out for those who dig this
sort of thing. Joey Wong isn’t a ghost in this film,
so the title must be referring to the rotted corpses
that attack them along the way. (Kozo
1995) |
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Awards:
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10th
Annual Hong Kong Film Awards
• Nomination
- Best Supporting Actor (Jacky Cheung
Hok-Yau)
• Nomination
- Best Editing (Marco
Mak Chi-Sin)
• Nomination
- Best Action Design (Ching Siu-Tung,
Lau Chi-Ho, Wu Chi-Lung) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Joy Sales Video Distribution
16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
Dolby Digital 6.1 / DTS ES 6.1
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles |
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Also
see: |
A
Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
A Chinese Ghost
Story 3 (1991)
A Chinese
Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (1997) |
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