![]() ![]() Video Credit: Golden Sun Films (Hong Kong, International) There was a time in Filipino cinema when action heroes in the 70s and 80s had a horse rider, swashbuckler hero adventuring in some godforsaken mountain enclave and encountering supernatural threats to some isolated town and he would rescue the locals and win the local beauty's heart, A Chinese Fairy Tale aka A Chinese Ghost Story remake should remind many Pinoys of those good ole days when we had stuff like this and now, it seems the Chinese Wuxia and Bollywood epic fantasy films are now making their statement on how a spooky fairy tale adventure can be both a romance, sexy and a family movie to enjoy for feast celebrations like Halloween or Sam Hain harvest eve festival. It also has one of the most beautifully rendered Chinese love song MTV which you can check out online. The story has been disparaged as having rough cut continuity and is a strange comedy art film but this particular movie has become a cult classic in its own right with many fans falling in love with Charlene Choi's character as ugly duckling princess. ![]() It is funny and endearing in its own inimitable manner, and you get to see super celebrity, Bing Bing Fan, before she became then superstar she is right now, as an alien princess, and fan favorite, Charlene Choi as the lizard-imp (ugly duckling) who falls in love with the monk and transforms into a beautiful princess to save him. The earliest of the three is A Chinese Tall Story which is sort of like a Goose Girl / Ugly Duckling fairy tail, but uses Chinese folklore about lizard imps, demons and monk demon-hunters as its romantic characters. If you have study group scheduled this weekend, you can actually sneak this in as your guilty pleasure after getting all of the work done and enjoy the Halloween week coming up. ![]() After you gorge on the food and the booze or whatever you're celebrating with this year, take time to ready your copies of the following Wuxia spooky fairy tale movies: Once Upon a Time (2017), A Chinese Ghost Story 2 (2013), and A Chinese Tall Story (2004). Or if you are new convert to celebrating Sam Hain Harvest Festival with an American Pilgrim Thanksgiving kind-of-feast, then that has its own superstitious and good luck rituals that also are fun, harmless and even illuminating as a turnaround on what has imposed on us as Christians for quite a while now. It's that time of the year again when we celebrate Halloween with whatever corny rituals we feel like doing. ![]()
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