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Summary
From a camping trip, a college girl took home an ancient rope to use to keep her torn backpack in place, not knowing it was used by a disgraced scholar to hang himself with decades before.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 64GoodWatch 65
Letterboxd · 507 ratings3.3/5
IMDb6.2
Running time
1 h 36 min
A typical length for comedies
typical 10096Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 5 more
Released
1984
July 14, 1984
42 years ago
Genres
ComedyFantasyLanguage
cn
Original language
Made in
Hong Kong SAR China
and 11 more17 people
- Raymond Wong Pak-MingChu Kam-Chun - Happy Ghost
- Bonnie Law Ming-ChuLam Ching-Ching
- Loletta Lee Lai-ChunFlower
- Sandy Lam San-SanVenus Koo
- Teresa CarpioSister Lee
- Ng Siu-GongJoe
- YCYu Chan-KauBrazano Trovaski Chan
- Raymond Fung Sai-HungPrincipal
- Clifton Ko Chi-SumSchool Superintendent
- GWGo WangMr. Koo
Lai SuenMrs. Koo
Sze Kai-KeungFatty
Brenda Lo Yip-MeiTwiggy / Sister Eight
Tin ChingPik's Father
Yeung Yau-CheungPeter
Lai Chi-ShanJudy- KCKok Cheong WongInvigilator
Directing · 1
- Clifton Ko Chi-Sum Director, Writer
Writing · 3
- Raymond Wong Pak-Ming Writer, Producer
- Joe Ma Wai-ho Writer
- Pang Kin-Yi Writer
Camera · 1
- Bob Thompson Director of Photography
Sound · 1
- Lam Miu-Tak Original Music Composer
Art · 1
- Kenneth Yee Art Direction
Other crew · 2
- Dean Shek Tin Presenter
- Karl Maka Presenter
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Film 1 of 5 · then Happy Ghost II
- The Happy Ghost (1984)
GoodWatch score 64You're here
- Happy Ghost II (1985)
GoodWatch score 62Film 2
- Happy Ghost III (1986)
GoodWatch score 65Film 3
- Happy Ghost IV (1990)
GoodWatch score 61Film 4
- Happy Ghost V (1991)
GoodWatch score 59Film 5
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