Spiritual Love (film)

Spiritual Love
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Traditional	鬼新娘
Simplified	鬼新娘
Mandarin	Guǐ Xīn Niáng
Cantonese	Gwai2 San1 Neong4
Directed by	David Lai Taylor Wong
Produced by	Johnny Mak
Written by	Stephen Siu
Starring	Chow Yun-fat Cherie Chung Pauline Wong Deanie Ip
Music by	Joseph Chan
Cinematography	Jingle Ma Derek Wan
Edited by	A Chik Ma Chung-yiu Chiu Cheuk-man
Production company	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

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.

A man named Pu Yung-tsai lives with his cousin who is a student Feng shui and Maoshan. Pu buys an antique desk from a second-hand shop and inside is a suicide letter written by a young woman called Wei Hsiao-tieh. Pu replies to the letter and gives up 3 years of his life, so the woman is able to come back to Earth and get away from her forced marriage. Then, Pu splits up with his girlfriend, May, because he caught her having an affair. Pu then begins a relationship with the Hsiao-tieh. Afterwards May wants to get back together with Pu because her rich boyfriend has dumped her. She stages a suicide to benefit from Pu but it backfires and she dies.

She then returns as a ghost in a night club and Pu, his cousin, his cousin's mentorr and his friend attempted to get rid of her spirit. She chases them all around the club trying to kill them but then Hsiao-tieh turns up after making a deal with her husband to go back to him, if he will get rid of May's ghost. The husband then turns up and eats May and then returns to his own realm.