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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Enchanting Shadow
| image          = The Enchanting Shadow.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| native_name  = {{Infobox Chinese/Chinese|child=yes|hide=no|header=none
| s      = 倩女幽魂
| p      = qiàn yǚ yōuhún
| l      = beautiful ghost woman
}}
| director       = [[Li Han-hsiang]]
| producer       = [[Run Run Shaw]]<br />Zhou Duwen
| writer         = [[Pu Songling]]<br />Wang Yueting
| starring       = [[Betty Loh Ti]]<br />[[Zhao Lei (actor)|Zhao Lei]]
| music          = [[Yao Min]]<br />Chi Hsiang-tang
| cinematography = He Luying
| editing        = Chiang Hsing-lung
| distributor    = [[Shaw Brothers Studio]]
| released       = {{film date|1960|8|17|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 83 minutes
| country        = Hong Kong
| language       = Mandarin<br>Cantonese
}}
'''''The Enchanting Shadow''''' ({{zh|c=倩女幽魂}}, ''Sin neui yau wan'', ''Chi’en-nu Yu-Hin'', ''Qiàn yǚ Yōuhún'') is a 1960 Hong Kong [[drama film]] directed by [[Li Han-hsiang]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en_US/web/hkfa/programmesandexhibitions/tblt/film04.html |title=The Enchanting Shadow |work=Hong Kong Film Archive |accessdate=17 May 2018}}</ref> It was entered into the [[1960 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3295/year/1960.html |title=Festival de Cannes: The Enchanting Shadow |accessdate=15 February 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> The film was also selected as the Hong Kong entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[33rd Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref> The film was an inspiration for the 1987 film ''[[A Chinese Ghost Story]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaw |first1=Tristan |title=‘The Enchanting Shadow’: A classic ghostly romance |url=https://supchina.com/2019/10/18/the-enchanting-shadow-a-classic-ghostly-romance/ |website=SupChina |access-date=24 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019024013/https://supchina.com/2019/10/18/the-enchanting-shadow-a-classic-ghostly-romance/ |archive-date=19 October 2019 |date=18 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Plot==
At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the country was in ruins and the society was in turmoil. The scholar Ning Caichen went to collect rent and stayed overnight at Jinhua Temple, where he met the swordsman Yan Chixia. The female ghost Nie Xiaoqian was forced by the old demon grandmother to take Ning Caichen's life for the grandmother to suck blood. In the face of beauty and gold, Ning Caichen was unmoved. Nie Xiaoqian was kind by nature, so she told him the truth and let him live with Yan Chixia, thus escaping the disaster. Nie Xiaoqian was originally a daughter of an official, and died in a foreign land. Ning Caichen took her ashes back home. On the way, the grandmother attacked, and Ning Caichen's life was in danger. Yan Chixia arrived and subdued the old demon.

==Cast==
* [[Betty Loh Ti]] as [[Nie Xiaoqian]]
* [[Zhao Lei (actor)|Zhao Lei]] as Ning Caichen
* Yang Chih-ching (Yang Zhiqing) as Yan Chixia
* Tang Ruoqing as Lao Lao
* [[Lee Kwan]] as Scholar's servant

==See also==
* [[List of submissions to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of Hong Kong submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0059029|title=The Enchanting Shadow}}
*[https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=3203&display_set=eng ''The Enchanting Shadow''] at the Hong Kong Movie Database
*[http://www.dianying.com/en/title/qny1960 ''The Enchanting Shadow''] at the Chinese Movie Database

{{Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio}}
{{Li Han-hsiang}}
{{Hong Kong submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film}}

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[[Category:1960 films]]
[[Category:1960 drama films]]
[[Category:1960s fantasy drama films]]
[[Category:1960s Mandarin-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Li Han-hsiang]]
[[Category:Gothic horror films]]
[[Category:Hong Kong fantasy drama films]]
[[Category:Shaw Brothers Studio films]]
[[Category:1960s Hong Kong films]]


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