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The Phantom Lover

Directed by Ronny Yu

Starring Leslie Cheung, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the actors, Wei Qing, starts seeing strange apparitions that could revive his troupe and deliver him to the same fate as Song Danping.