Erotic Ghost Story II (1991)

Director: Peter Ngor
Writers: Casey Chan (as Lai-Ying Chan), Amy Choi (as Suk-Yin Choi)
Stars: Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Ichijo Sayuri, Charine Chan

After being defeated by the fox spirits in the first film, Wu Tung (Wong) is cast into the Demon World, split into male and female bodies (yin and yang). Retaining the power to take human guise, in the form of wanderer Chiu Sheng, he falls uncontrollably in love with the beautiful Hsiao Yen (Ichijo). Yen reciprocates, being the catalyst to purge his demonic soul, but the forces of Heaven cannot allow two demons to fall in love. Two fairies (Yip & Man) are sent forth to Earth, destroying Yen and banishing Wu Tung, but at the cost of their own immortality. Before the surviving fairy expires, she passes the soul of Yen to a mortal baby.

Twenty years later that baby has grown into the extraordinary form of Fang Yu Yin (Chan), daughter of the chief of Feng Yuen village. Feng Yuen has been besieged by Wu Tung for decades, cursed to offer virginal female offspring on a monthly basis to satiate the sexual desires of the demon in his twin forms. When the village lottery draws Yu Yin's name, her fate seems predestined. Local fisherman Shan Ken (Kwok) would have it other ways, having fallen for Yu, and she is rescued from the monster. Unfortunately, Yu holds the reincarnated soul of Wu Tung's true love, and it becomes the task of Yu, Shan, and his sister (Chik) to face the demon, and his equally perverse female entity (Chang).

From art design through set design, down to cinematography and the luridly erotic setpieces, there is virtually nothing I can fault with Peter Ngor's sequel film. Indeed, it is one of those rare cases where a sequel exceeds the already impressive standards set by its predecessor. If there were anything to pinpoint as cringe-inducingly awful, it would be Anthony Wong's ridiculously hammy portrayal of demon sex-god Wu Tung, as it is not a patch on Tan Lap Man's original (which was still pretty silly). Running the gamut of hot wax to bisexual gropings, threesome gymnastics to severed torsos, aerial ardor to underwater couplings, Ngor's erotic highlights burn up the screen like nothing else you've ever seen. Couple all of this with a bold, vibrant theatrical visual style, stunningly beautiful in execution, and you've got a film that looks far better than it sounds!




Part 1 - Erotic Ghost Story (1987) - is here

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