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The plot is based on a folk-tale from the Qing Dynasty (Wikipedia). This film was made in Hong Kong in 1987, the language presumably in the Cantonese dialect. The plot continues to get more convoluted with more spirits and demons awakening on the one hand, and as the innocent tax collector gets caught up in the middle of rival families. Needless to say the tax collector falls in love with the maiden to the accompaniment of female vocalist singing a romantic ballad with western influenced musical arrangements. She tries to keep him hidden from her family, especially from her father who counts on his daughters to lure healthy young men to be sacrificed for his immortality. Meanwhile our innocent tax collector hears creepy sounds as all manner of stop-motion skeletal, half-decomposed zombie types start crawling around the house. The old warrior finds the body and chases off some hostile spirits, cursing “Damn those Taoists!” at one point. That night the younger warrior is seduced by a beautiful girl only to be attacked and desiccated by a strange supernatural creature. He ends up finding a place a place to stay in a haunted house out of town, where he runs into two swordsmen, an old master of the martial arts and a young impetuous challenger, who have been feuding for seven years. The townsfolk refuse to pay up or to house him. A young tax collector walks a great distance through the elements to a town only to find that his records have been washed out by the rain.