An Asian Ghost Story

Mar 22, 2023

0h 37m

★ 6.2

Overview

A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

Vines Films

Geodesic Studio

Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT)

An Asian Ghost Story Trailers

Cast

Narrator / Female Ghost

Jia Zhao

EVPL Developer

Michael de Roos

EVPL Staff

Sai Wang Lau

Female Worker 1

Zoénie Liwen Deng

Female Worker 2

Ruoyao Jane Yao

Female Worker 3 / Pontianak

Zoe Tang

Malay / Indonesian Translator

Jo-Lene Ong

Wigmaker

Sidney Vereycken

Gunnar and Sonja are a married couple that had it all, money,love and a beautful daughter. But after the death of there daughter their world falls apart. To make things worse Gunnar is in the middle of a trial, being charged with illegal sales and purchase on behave of his company. When Gunnar and Sonja inherit Gunnar's niece Perla, the couple take on a weekend journey to pick up Perla, who is staying at a remote house in the Icelandic country side where she lost both of her parents in a horrible way. When Gunnar and Sonja arrive at the house strange things start to happen.

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