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* MisplacedWildlife: The distinctive yip-yip-howl of a coyote can be heard in the first film's graveyard.

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* MisplacedWildlife: The distinctive yip-yip-howl of a coyote can be heard in the first film's graveyard. The film is set in Ancient China, like what the title said.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: in the second film, we get a centipede

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: in the second film, we get a centipedegigantic [[CreepyCentipedes centipede]] monster.
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* {{Greed}}: The magistrate in the first film: when he's not acting like a HangingJudge, he's asking to be payed. When Ning tells him that he'd pay him if he had the money, the magistrate downright orders him to get out and ''steal'' money to pay him. When Yin shows up (creating a MassOhCrap) he cowardly hides under his desk, [[BlatantLies begging Yin not to rob him because he's poor.]]

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* {{Greed}}: The magistrate in the first film: when he's not acting like a HangingJudge, he's asking to be payed.paid. When Ning tells him that he'd pay him if he had the money, the magistrate downright orders him to get out and ''steal'' money to pay him. When Yin shows up (creating a MassOhCrap) he cowardly hides under his desk, [[BlatantLies begging Yin not to rob him because he's poor.]]
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There were two sequels, released respectively in 1990 and 1991. In the first of them, Ning gets into a political affair which turns out to have a supernatural background. In the second, which is set a century after the first film, two monks stumble upon the same Tree Demon to finish it once for all. There's also an 1997 AnimatedAdaptation of the first film[[note]]By Creator/TriangleStaff and Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]], with a more kid-friendly feel[[note]]The Japanese dub cast includes Creator/AkiraIshida as Ning and Creator/MegumiHayashihara as Nie[[/note]]. The original got a remake directed by Wilson Yip in 2011, starring Liu Yifei as Nie.

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There were two sequels, released respectively in 1990 and 1991. In the first of them, Ning gets into a political affair which turns out to have a supernatural background. In the second, which is set a century after the first film, two monks stumble upon the same Tree Demon to finish it once for all. There's also an 1997 AnimatedAdaptation of the first film[[note]]By Creator/TriangleStaff and Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]], with a more kid-friendly feel[[note]]The Japanese dub cast includes Creator/AkiraIshida as Ning and Creator/MegumiHayashihara Creator/MegumiHayashibara as Nie[[/note]]. The original got a remake directed by Wilson Yip in 2011, starring Liu Yifei as Nie.
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There were two sequels, released respectively in 1990 and 1991. In the first of them, Ning gets into a political affair which turns out to have a supernatural background. In the second, which is set a century after the first film, two monks stumble upon the same Tree Demon to finish it once for all. There's also an 1997 AnimatedAdaptation of the first film[[note]]By Creator/TriangleStaff and Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]], with a more kid-friendly feel. The original got a remake directed by Wilson Yip in 2011.

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There were two sequels, released respectively in 1990 and 1991. In the first of them, Ning gets into a political affair which turns out to have a supernatural background. In the second, which is set a century after the first film, two monks stumble upon the same Tree Demon to finish it once for all. There's also an 1997 AnimatedAdaptation of the first film[[note]]By Creator/TriangleStaff and Creator/WangFilmProductions[[/note]], with a more kid-friendly feel. feel[[note]]The Japanese dub cast includes Creator/AkiraIshida as Ning and Creator/MegumiHayashihara as Nie[[/note]]. The original got a remake directed by Wilson Yip in 2011.
2011, starring Liu Yifei as Nie.
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Ning, played by Creator/LeslieCheung, is a timid tax collector living somewhere in ImperialChina. His job requires him to travel to rural areas, and this way he arrives at a certain town, but he's broke, so he is forced to seek shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts. That night in the temple, Ning meets a beautiful and alluring young maiden called Nie. However, when he later recalls last night's events the next day, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious. It turns out Nie is actually a spirit, enslaved by a Tree Demon who forces her ghosts to kill men. But Ning manages to fall in love with her in the meanwhile, and decides to free her, and to do this enlists the help of Yin, a Taoist priest and wizard and all-round badass.

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Ning, played by Creator/LeslieCheung, is a timid tax collector living somewhere in ImperialChina. His job requires him to travel to rural areas, and this way he arrives at a certain town, but he's broke, so he is forced to seek shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts. That night in the temple, Ning meets a beautiful and alluring young maiden called Nie.Nie (Joey Wong). However, when he later recalls last night's events the next day, he becomes increasingly fearful and superstitious. It turns out Nie is actually a spirit, enslaved by a Tree Demon who forces her ghosts to kill men. But Ning manages to fall in love with her in the meanwhile, and decides to free her, and to do this enlists the help of Yin, a Taoist priest and wizard and all-round badass.

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