A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy Is Getting the 4K Treatment From Arrow Video This October

Arrow Video are putting out a UK Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray box set of A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy on 26 October 2026 – and because the 4K discs are region-free, overseas collectors can import them without any playback headaches, YAY.

All three films have been newly restored from 4K scans of the original camera negatives (presented with Dolby Vision and HDR10 on the 4K discs alongside the original Cantonese mono audio and 5.1 options), which is a huge step up if you only ever watched these on rough old DVD transfers.

Directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark, the 1987 original stars Leslie Cheung as Ning Choi-san, a timid tax collector who spends the night at the supposedly abandoned Lan Ro Temple and meets Nie Xiaoqian (Joey Wong), a ghost trapped under the control of a nasty supernatural entity, which quickly explodes into swordplay, demons, romance, wild practical effects, and monsters that look like they escaped straight from a fever dream – the sort of movie that manages to be genuinely eerie one minute and completely fucking ridiculous the next.

A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) and A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991) push the martial-arts mayhe, even further, proving why late-80s Hong Kong cinema never cared about staying in one neat genre lane, especially if you come in expecting Asian horror to look like The Ring or The Grudge.

The biggest draw on the extras front here I would say is Hong Kong’s Eternal Icon, a brand-new feature-length documentary on Leslie Cheung, backed up by Tsui Hark interviews, expert commentaries, deleted scenes, a collector’s booklet, poster, and reversible sleeve art.

You can order this new release from Arrow Video.

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I am a fan of movies in general and watch quite a few every week, but my love for Asian horror started in the 90’s during the J-horror boom – you know the ones – and ever since then I’ve been hooked on discovering horror from across Asia, from the classics everyone knows to the hidden gems that deserve a much bigger audience.

On this site I explore Asian horror movies from across Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, Malaysia, and beyond, since the big entertainment sites tend to focus only on the biggest releases.