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Spiritual Love, also known as Ghost Bride or The Phantom Bride is a 1987 Hong Kong fantasy comedy film directed by David Lai and Taylor Wong and starring Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung, Pauline Wong and Deanie Ip.[1]

Spiritual Love
Film poster
Traditional	鬼新娘
Simplified	鬼新娘
Mandarin	Guǐ Xīn Niáng
Cantonese	Gwai2 San1 Neong4
Directed by	David Lai Taylor Wong
Written by	Stephen Siu
Produced by	Johnny Mak
Starring	Chow Yun-fat Cherie Chung Pauline Wong Deanie Ip
Cinematography	Jingle Ma Derek Wan
Edited by	A Chik Ma Chung-yiu Chiu Cheuk-man
Music by	Joseph Chan
Production companies	Golden Harvest Johnny Mak Productions
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	15 October 1987 (1987-10-15)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$22,098,000

Plot

A man named Pu Yung-tsai lives with his cousin who is a student Feng shui and Maoshan. 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.[2]

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.[2]

Cast

• Chow Yun-fat as Pu Yung-tsai[3]
• Cherie Chung as Wei Hsiao-tieh[3]
• Pauline Wong as May [3]
• Deanie Ip as Sai Chin-hua[3]
• Hon Yee-sang as King Ghost
• Alex Ng as Pu's deaf-mute friend [3]
• Paul Chun as Pu's boss [3]
• 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

Accolades

Accolades
Ceremony	Category	Recipient	Outcome
8th Hong Kong Film Awards[4][5]	Best Supporting Actress	Deanie Ip	Nominated

Home Media

VHS

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Format	Language	Subtitles	Notes	REF
14 August 2001	United States	Unknown	Tai Seng Entertainment	NTSC	Cantonese	English		[6]

VCD

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Format	Language	Subtitles	Notes	REF
Unknown	Hong Kong	N/A	Deltamac (HK)	NTSC	Cantonese, Mandarin	English, Chinese	2VCDs	[7]
12 July 2005	Hong Kong	N/A	Universe Laser (HK)	NTSC	Cantonese, Mandarin	English, Traditional Chinese	2VCDs	[8]
1 June 2006	Hong Kong	N/A	Joy Sales(HK)	NTSC	Cantonese, Mandarin	English, Traditional Chinese	2VCDs	[9]

DVD

Release date	Country	Classifaction	Publisher	Format	Region	Language	Sound	Subtitles	Notes	REF
1 January 2000	Hong Kong	N/A	Universe Laser (HK)	NTSC	ALL	Cantonese, Mandarin	Unknown	English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French		[10]
24 March 2000	Japan	N/A	Pioneer LDC	NTSC	2	Cantonese	Unknown	English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese		[11]
17 July 2001	United States	N/A	Tai Seng	NTSC	ALL	Cantonese	Dolby	English		[12]
13 July 2003	Hong Kong	N/A	Joy Sales (HK)	NTSC	ALL	Cantonese, Mandarin	Dolby Digital 2.0	English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese		[13]

External links

• Gui xin niang at IMDb
• Spiritual Love at Rotten Tomatoes

References

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