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Lani Loa – The Passage (1998)

Lani Loa – The Passage poster
Original title
Lani Loa: The Passage
Directed by
Sherwood Hu
Genre
action, crime
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman is murdered on her wedding day in Hawaii. She returns as a ghost to haunt the people who killed her.

ghostlyrevenge-drivenatmosphericmelancholicmysteriousslow-burnsupernaturalhaunting

What happens

Lani Loa – The Passage is a 1998 film directed by Sherwood Hu, executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, about a woman murdered on her wedding day in Hawaii who comes back to haunt her murderers. The film stars Angus Macfadyen, Ray Bumatai, Carlotta Chang and Chris Tashima. It was the first film from Coppola's and Wayne Wang's Chrome Dragon Films, a short-lived film company that was to specialize in utilizing Asian talent on American-financed projects. Set in Hawaii, the film was shot in Hilo, Hawaii and in China, in Hainan and Shanghai. It screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Hawaii International Film Festival (as Lani Loa: The Heavenly Passage) and has been released in Asia on VCD, as Lani-Loa (Hawaiian Ghost Story). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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