The Revenge Ghost of the Tree (1988)
- Original title
- 林投姐
- Directed by
- Ting Shan-hsi
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman is murdered and her body is hung from a tree. She returns as a ghost to seek justice in this Taiwanese drama based on a folk legend.
tragicmelancholicsorrowfulsomberslow-pacedatmosphericdarkemotional
What happens
《林投姐》（英語：The Revenge Ghost of the Tree），為1988年由丁善璽執導的電影作品，改編自台灣民間廣傳清代台灣四大奇案之一的林投姐傳說。相較於較為民間流傳中較常見的望夫版本及負心漢版本，此電影版將女主角自縊的劇情改為遭人殺害後懸吊於林投樹，更加突顯出其悲哀與無奈。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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