Underplayed Gems

Happy Ghost II (1985)

Happy Ghost II poster
Original title
開心鬼放暑假
Directed by
Clifton Ko
Genre
comedy film, ghost film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
15
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A reincarnated ghost with superpowers becomes a high school teacher. He must deal with a class of prank-pulling students and a budding romance with a teacher from a neighboring boy school.

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What happens

Happy Ghost II (Chinese: 開心鬼放暑假) is a 1985 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Clifton Ko. Produced and written by Raymond Wong, the film stars Wong, Fennie Yuan, May Lo, Charine Chan and Gigi Fu. This film is the sequel to Happy Ghost. Although the film grossed less than its prequel, it was the 10th most grossing film in Hong Kong that year. The film is about Happy Ghost / Scholar Stewart Pik (Raymond Wong Pak-ming) gets reincarnated and is now a high school teacher called Hong Sam Kwai, born with natural superpowers but doesn't know how to use them. He is assigned to teach a class full of naughty students who likes to play pranks. He becomes a victim of his students, but with the help of a school worker (Kee-Chan Tang), he knows how to avoid the pranks. Some boys from a boy school nearby falls in love with Kwai's students and Kwai falls in love with the boys' class teacher. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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