Today, we bring you a review on the 1997 Hong Kong animation
film, A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (小倩). Written and produced by Tsui Hark, best known
for A
Better Tomorrow, The Banquet, and Once Upon a Time in China series, A
Chinese Ghost Story follows in the footsteps of Hark’s popular work on
three live-action adaptions of the same name.
Debuting at the Toronto Film Festival, A Chinese Ghost Story
went on to win the Best Animated Film Award in 1997 at the Golden Horse Film
Festival and in 1998 at the Asia Pacific Film Festival and the Merit Award at
the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
The film di fairly well in Hong Kong and China, and Viz Media even
bought the rights to distribute it in the States, though if asked if they were
successful in doing so, I would have to say no. (I have never met anyone who
knows of this animation)