Spiritual Love (film)

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.

In the film, a man offers years of his own life to release a female ghost from the afterlife. He proceeds to reject his unfaithful girlfriend, and to start a romantic relationship with the ghost. His former girlfriend kills herself in a failed attempt to reclaim his affection. The girlfriend returns as a vengeful ghost, and the other female ghost has to sacrifice herself in order to rescue her lover.

Plot
A man named Pu Yung-tsai lives with his cousin who is a student of 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.

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

 * Chow Yun-fat as Pu Yung-tsai
 * Cherie Chung as Wei Hsiao-tieh
 * Pauline Wong as May
 * Deanie Ip 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