''Spiritual Love'', also known as ''Ghost Bride'' or ''The Phantom Bride'' is a 1987 Hong Kong fantasy comedy film directed by

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and Taylor Wong and starring

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, Pauline Wong and

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Plot

A man named Pu Yung-tsai lives with his cousin who is a student Feng shui and

Maoshan The Shangqing School (Chinese:上清派), also known as Supreme Clarity or Highest Clarity is a Taoist movement that began during the aristocracy of the Western Jin dynasty. Shangqing can be translated as either 'Supreme Clarity' or 'Highest Clari ...

. Yung-tsai buys an antique desk from a second-hand shop and inside is a suicide letter written by a young woman called Wei Hsiao-tieh. Yung-tsai replies to the letter and gives up 3 years of his life, so the woman is able to come back to Earth as a ghost and get away from her forced marriage in the afterlife. When Yung-tsai splits up with his girlfriend, May, because he caught her having an affair, he begins a relationship with Hsiao-tieh. May wants to get back together with Yung-tsai because her rich boyfriend has dumped her and she is pregnant. She stages a fake suicide attempt to win back Yung-tsai but it backfires and she dies.Plot May then returns as a ghost in a night club and Yung-tsai, his cousin, his cousin's mentor and his friend attempt to get rid of her spirit. She chases them all around the club trying to kill them. Hsiao-tieh makes a deal with her husband to go back to him, if he will save Yung-tsai and his friends. The husband then turns up and consumes May's ghost before returning to his own realm with Hsiao-tieh.

Cast

as Pu Yung-tsaiList of cast *

as Wei Hsiao-tieh *Pauline Wong as May *

as Sai Chin-hua *Hon Yee-sang as King Ghost *Alex Ng as Pu's deaf-mute friend * Paul Chun as Pu's boss *Luk Yik-sang *Luk Ying-hung as policeman *Yu Kwok-lok as hotel manager *Fung Yuen-chi as gangster *Kan Tat-wah as bodyguard *Fan Wing-wah as thug *Lee Hang as Taoist *Hung San-nam as bodyguard *Jackson Ng as bodyguard *Tang Chiu-yau as bodyguard *Wong Wai-fai as bodyguard

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References

{{Reflist 1987 films 1980s fantasy comedy films 1980s comedy horror films Hong Kong fantasy comedy films Hong Kong comedy horror films Hong Kong supernatural horror films Hong Kong ghost films 1980s supernatural horror films Hong Kong slapstick comedy films 1980s Cantonese-language films Golden Harvest films Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in Hong Kong Films directed by David Lai Films directed by Taylor Wong 1987 comedy films 1980s Hong Kong films