Yee do hung gaan (2002, Hong Kong)

Leslie Cheung plays Dr Jim Law, a psychiatrist who starts to counsel a young woman who seems to see apparitions in her flat and elsewhere. As the film progresses a romance develops, but soon it is Law himself who is seeing a ghost; this is a considerable irony because until now his advice has been that no such thing exists.

The ghost that he sees is off a girl he knew when they were both just teenagers; the girl committed suicide in front of him, and she seems to have come back now to haunt him. Eventually he is nearly driven to committing suicide himself. Intermediately there is a brief seqquence where she seems to have taken possession of him, but there are no particular transgender overtones to this.

The film is well done and the sense of horror approaching is cleverly executed without the usual gory paraphernalia.

The film was also released as Inner Senses.

HF February 2008

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