A Chinese Ghost Story (2011 film)

A Chinese Ghost Story
Film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese倩女幽魂
Simplified Chinese倩女幽魂
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQiàn Nǚ Yōu Hún
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSin6 Neoi5 Jau1 Wan4
Directed byWilson Yip
Screenplay byCharcoal Tan
Story byPu Songling
Produced byLai Jun-kei
Xu Jianhai
StarringLouis Koo
Liu Yifei
Yu Shaoqun
Kara Hui
Louis Fan
Wang Danyi Li
CinematographyArthur Wong
Edited byCheung Ka-fai
Music byRonald Ng
Production
company
Distributed byGolden Sun Films (Hong Kong, International)
Huaxia Film Distribution Company (China)
Release dates
  • 21 April 2011 (2011-04-21) (Singapore)
  • 22 April 2011 (2011-04-22) (China)
  • 28 April 2011 (2011-04-28) (Hong Kong)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesHong Kong
China
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
Box officeUS$24.7 million

A Chinese Ghost Story, also known as A Chinese Fairy Tale, is a 2011 fantasy-supernatural film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Louis Koo, Liu Yifei, Yu Shaoqun, Kara Hui, Louis Fan, and Wang Danyi Li. The film is adapted from the short story Nie Xiaoqian in Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, a collection of supernatural stories set in ancient China.