Happy Ghost III Chinese pinyin Kai xin gui zhuang gui is a 1986 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Johnnie To. Produced and written by Raymond Wong, the film stars Wong and Maggie Cheung. The film is about a spirit of the late female singer Tsui Pan Han Maggie Cheung waits in the afterlife for a chance to be reincarnated. She meets the Godfather Tsui Hark who has found an appropriate musical family for her to be reincarnated with. Her opportunity to be born into the new family is ruined when Sam Kwai Raymond Wong takes the pregnant wife to the wrong hospital. Pan Han is given one month to find a new body to assume her reincarnation in, and decides in the meantime to harass Sam Kwai. Kwai eventually summons the Happy Ghost to help him out.
Happy Ghost III was the first film director Johnnie To had worked for Cinema City and his first film since The Enigmatic Case 1980. To had previously been working in television after the box office failure of The Enigmatic Case. To found the film easy to approach as he did not have to write the script and was told he was not allowed to change it by Cinema Citys rules. Tsui Hark appears in the film as the Godfather and also provides the film with the special effects.Happy Ghost III was a hit for Cinema City and grossed a total of HK15,339,277 and was the 11thhighest grossing film of the year in Hong Kong. The film grossed less than its two prequels Happy Ghost and Happy Ghost II, which earned a total of HK17.4 and HK16.6 respectively. The film was followed by Happy Ghost 4, which was directed by Clifton Ko. ........
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