New Wave Hong Kong Cinema at its most kinetic: In A CHINESE GHOST STORY a heartbreakingly young Leslie Cheung plays a young scholar and tax collector who seeks shelter in a derelict temple, where he meets a Taoist swordsman (martial arts veteran Wu Ma), plenty slimy undead and a beautiful and sad ghost woman he falls in love with. To save her, he has to conquer her evil sister and their deadly mistress – a man eating tree demon with a very longue tongue.