My Flying Wife (1991)

Director
O Sing Pui

Main cast
Tommy Wong Kwong Leung; Sammo Hung; Fennie Yuen Kit-Ying

Genres
Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Description
A woman who is in debt to loan sharks is about to commit suicide to escape her debts. Two ghosts are waiting to take her soul when she dies, but at the last moment she is rescued by a member of the loan shark gang who is in love with her. The ghosts, angry at being deprived of a soul, take their vengeance on the gang.


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