The Ghost Tales
| The Ghost Tales | |
|---|---|
| Traditional Chinese | 變羊記 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Biànyáng jì |
| Hokkien POJ | Piàn-iûⁿ kì |
| Directed by | Tso Shih-chiang |
| Written by | Tso Shih-chiang |
| Starring | River Huang Lorene Ren Lee Yi-chieh Wu Pong-fong Tsai Chen-nan James Wen |
Production company | Husishi Films Co. |
| Distributed by | Swallow Wings Films Co. |
Release date |
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| Country | Taiwan |
| Budget | NT$35,000,000[1] |
The Ghost Tales (Chinese: 變羊記) is a 2012 Taiwanese psychological horror film directed by Tso Shih-chiang.[2][3][4]
Plot
[edit]Sung Ting-Po (Tsai Chen-nan) is a debt-ridden businessperson. Just as he is planning to go deep into the woods to kill himself, he runs into a ghost (Wu Pong-fong). Ting-Po has long already given up on life and decides to mess with the ghost, who is actually quite timid and turns into a goat. The goat is then picked up by A-chuan (River Huang), himself a talented gardening enthusiast, who has just left the military and takes both his younger sister (Lee Yi-chieh) and the goat to live in a dilapidated block of flats. At this time, through his gardening connections, A-chuan is staging a performance with a former schoolmate (James Wen). A-chuan covets a precious bonsai arrangement valued at over a million NTD, and he gradually loses all rational perspective; even his girlfriend (Lorene Ren) leaves him. Within all of this, the situation envelopes peoples' spirits as things continuously spiral out of control, and the darkness and fear devour all sense of reason.
Cast
[edit]- River Huang as A-chuan
- Lorene Ren as Lo Fen
- Lee Yi-chieh as Chi
- Wu Pong-fong as Big Chung / Ghost
- Tsai Chen-nan as Sung Ting-Po
- James Wen as Senior schoolmate
- Julianne Chu
- Nelson Shen as Ching
Production
[edit]Tso Shih-chiang reported coming up with the initial concept for the story 10 years before filming began. The film received the largest film subsidy possible in 2011, and filming began in July of the same year.[citation needed]
Release
[edit]The film premiered at Yuan Ze University on 10 August 2012 as part of the 'National Roaming Battalion of Literature and Art' festival (Chinese: 全國巡迴文藝營) before release on 7 September.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "創新詭異題材《變羊記》電影首映會上演神奇人羊對話" [The mystical person–goat dialogue at the screening of the premiere of the innovative and weird 'The Ghost Tales']. Wow News (in Chinese (Taiwan)). September 5, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- ^ Todd Rigney (July 24, 2012). "Goats Take Center Stage in the Full Trailer for The Ghost Tales". BeyondHollywood.com. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ^ Deljhp (June 29, 2012). "Two teasers for Taiwanese horror THE GHOST TALES". 24framespersecond.net. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ^ "變羊記 The Ghost Tales (2012)". HKMDB. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
- ^ Cheng Ying-wen 鄭景雯 (August 10, 2012). "變羊記文藝營首映 文青立挺" [The Ghost Tales premieres at the Roaming Battalion of Literature and Art: the artistic youth stand straight]. Taiwan News (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved February 22, 2021.
External links
[edit]- The Ghost Tales – official site
- The Ghost Tales at IMDb
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