A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

A timid tax collector spends the night in a haunted temple and falls for Joey Wong's ghost, and only Wu Ma's gruff Taoist swordsman Yan Chixia stands between them and the demons. Drawn from Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, it is wuxia at its most romantic and supernatural, with Leslie Cheung as the hapless lover, who also sings the theme song. Ching Siu-tung directs for producer Tsui Hark and won Best Action Choreography at the Hong Kong Film Awards, so the floating ghosts, flying swords and wind-whipped silks all move with fight-scene precision. It also took Best Feature Film at the Golden Horse Awards.