Xiao Qian (1997)

A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.

Director:

Andrew Chan

Writer:

Hark Tsui

Stars:

Don Brown, Jordan Chan, Sylvia Chang

3 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Don Brown	...	Red Beard (voice)
Jordan Chan	...	Mountain Evil (Cantonese version) (voice)
Sylvia Chang	...	Shine (Mandarin version) (voice)
Kelly Chen	...	Madame Trunk (Cantonese version) (voice)
Ronald Cheng	...	Fu (voice)
Michael Donovan	...	Ning (voice)
Erin Fitzgerald	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Tanya Hancheroff	...	Siu Seen (singing voice)
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	...	White Cloud (Mandarin version) (voice)
Janyse Jaud	...	Siu Lan (voice)
Eric Kot	...	Ten Miles (Cantonese version) (voice)
Vivian Lai	...	Lan (Cantonese version) (voice)
Jan Lamb	...	Ning (Cantonese version) (voice)
Lichun Lee	...	Yan Chixia (Mandarin version) (voice)
Rene Liu	...	Xiaodie (voice)

Storyline

A young man named Ning wanders through China as a debt collector. When his work takes him to a city full of ghosts, he falls in love with one. At the same time, two competing ghostbusters are after him in order to rid China of ghosts. Can Ning avoid them and still win his ghost girlfriend's love?

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Plot Keywords:

ghost | surrealism | remake | chinese | based on novel

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Genres:

Action | Fantasy | Animation | Comedy | Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Hong Kong Japan

Language:

Mandarin Cantonese

Release Date:

26 July 1997 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

Company Credits

Production Co:

Film Workshop, PolyGram, Win's Entertainment Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Shrek (2001)

User Reviews

Interesting plot

This animation starts extremely lame. That is, compared to the rest of story. At first I thought I got some kind of cheesy ghost-busting anime with weird-looking synthesis of computer graphics and regular animation. But if you can accept (or endure) occasional splashes of barrel and spell fighting you'll find in this movie an engrossing love drama with interesting plot turns and a bunch of original art. Although the mage characters seem to be low grade in comparison to two main ones the battle system mechanics is pretty interesting too and quite detailed. So after all 'low-gradeness' of mages could be a trick to make main characters stand out.

This version of the story is WAY better than any real movie interpretations. Very recommended.