Sinnui Yauwan / A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

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Plot: Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence (or 'yang element')...

Reviews: Kung Fu Cinema | LoveHKFilm.com | IMDb (external reviews)

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093978/
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (2,134 votes)
Awards & Nominations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093978/awards

Director: Tony Ching Siu-tung

Producer: Tsui Hark

Cast:
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing .... Ning Tsai-shen
Joey Wong Cho-yin .... Nieh Hsiao-tsing
Wu Ma .... Swordsman Yen Che-hsia
Lau Siu-ming .... Tree Devil
Sit Chi-lun .... Ching
Lam Wai .... Hsia-hou

<table class="quote"> <tr> <td>Title: </td> <td>A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Sinnui Yauwan</i></td></tr> <tr> <td>Source: </td> <td>DVD Retail / R3, NTSC / IVL</td></tr> <tr> <td>Size:</td> <td>1.566.448.082 bytes (1/3 DVDR)</td></tr> <tr> <td>Runtime:</td> <td>01:35:29</td></tr> <tr> <td>Format:</td> <td>MKV</td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Video Codec:</td> <td>H264 (x264 rev.593)</td></tr> <tr> <td>Video Bitrate:</td> <td>1801 Kbps</td></tr> <tr> <td>Resolution:</td> <td>704x464 (Anamorphic, displayed at 1.85 AR)</td></tr> <tr> <td>Aspect Ratio:</td> <td>1.85</td></tr> <tr> <td>Frame rate:</td> <td>23.976 fps</td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Audio Codec:</td> <td>AC3 (5.1 channels)</td></tr> <tr> <td>Audio Bitrate:</td> <td>384 Kbps</td></tr> <tr> <td>Sampling Rate:</td> <td>48 KHz</td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Language:</td> <td>Cantonese</td></tr> <tr> <td>Subtitles:</td> <td>English (VobSub)</td></tr> </table>
* the source is progressive, but it has aprox 20 interlaced frames

Screenshots resized to displayed AR:

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antropomorphic · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:12 am **Post subject:**

superb!!
totally my kinda stuff :mrgreen:

Geezus · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:16 am **Post subject:**

Finally a worthy rip of this AAA HK classic masterpiece.

One of the few live action movies that can match and surpass the action and bizarreness of a manga.
Thing blew me away the first time I saw it 12 years ago or so,despite viewing it poor german dubbing !

Must admit it's then awesome effects haven't aged as gracefull as one might have hoped, still beats the crap out of most junk CGI effects though :wink:

I hear there are still idiots out there who haven't seen this...

(looks at site owner)

PAU - JEE!- PAU-low-meeHee !!! *shoots fireballs from palm of hands*

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:02 am **Post subject:**

Fuckin awesome

elguaxo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:53 am **Post subject:**

Geezus wrote:

PAU - JEE!- PAU-low-meeHee !!! *shoots fireballs from palm of hands*

^Rogue^ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:57 am **Post subject:**

I love the movie but I'll wait for an avi.

vnorske · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:42 pm **Post subject:**

Thankselguaxo!

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:58 pm **Post subject:**

^Rogue^ wrote:

I love the movie but I'll wait for an avi.

I was considering getting an upgraded xbox myself

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:02 am **Post subject:**

It can't play x264?

elguaxo · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:32 am **Post subject:**

Lux Delux wrote:

It can't play x264?

It can, but is has not enough horsepower for most of them. This one is even anamorphic, so based on other tests we did with spud, I guess it won't play.

Perhaps a version of XBMC that includes CoreAVC... but it seems this won't happen in a near future: http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=8 ... count=1197

I have an old 950MHz Duron PC and it can handle this, but only using CoreAVC.

^Rogue^ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:06 am **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

^Rogue^ wrote:

I love the movie but I'll wait for an avi.

I was considering getting an upgraded xbox myself

You know that I got an xbox.

I just don't like mkv, yes, I'm closed-minded.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:19 am **Post subject:**

upgraded xbox, you need to put a 1.4Ghz cpu in it and it should play this

More info:
http://xbox.fuzzymuzzle.com/DreamX/cpuupgrade.htm

^Rogue^ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:40 am **Post subject:**

Sorry, I didn't read carefully.

Well, speed is not an issue. Most of the time I use my multimedia PC + plasma TV to view the files. I have 848x400-something res via VGA so it's clearly the better choice. And the Athlon 64 3200+ lets me play everything.

The issue in this case was mkv. Nothing that can't be rationally explained, I simply don't use it. But you won't find me bitching about it (much

). It's good to have choices and as for me I simply don't DL the fuckers and can live with it.

With elguaxo's rips is a little different. He releases a lot of stuff I'm into and I sometimes find myself thinking 'Shame' - so what I posted wasn't really about mkv either but about the fact that I really like the movie. A first (emotional) reaction.

vtwin0001 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:43 am **Post subject:**

antropomorphic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:45 pm **Post subject:**

any chance we'll be seeing this sort of quality rip for part 2 & 3 anytime soon??

elguaxo · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:49 pm **Post subject:**

Yes! Can't say exactly when, but I will rip them.

antropomorphic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:37 pm **Post subject:**

AWESOME!! you just became my god :wink:

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:02 pm **Post subject:**

Great news!

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