Drama: New Strange Stories from Liao Zhai
Chinese Title: 新聊斋志异1 / Xin Liao Zhai Zhi Yi 1
Genre: Fantasy, Historical
Language: Mandarin
Episodes: 36
Director: Gam - Yuen Ng, Wei Hantao, Huang Weiming
Screenwriter: Tang Jianping
Origin: China
Source: Adapted from the Chinese classic Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
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Synopsis and Plot Summary
It features 6 out of the more than 500 supernatural tales of Liao Zhao first published during the Qing Dynasty. The series is centered around six separate stories whose protagonists each have different encounters in the supernatural realm:
Judge Lu
Xiaoman (Hu Ke) and the scholar Bai Yang (Huang Xiaoming) are lovers who are toyed by fate. After Xiaoman dies and becomes a ghost in the underworld, Bai Yang will do everything just to be with her.
Painted Skin
Mei Sanniang (Zeng Li) and Chen Chuhui (Kwong Wa) were both killed by their husband Wang Anxun. On the night that he’s about to be married to the princess Ming Xia, the two deceased women come back to haunt him.
Xiao Cui
Years ago, Xiao Cui’s mother was saved by Wang Yuanzhi (He Guilin). To repay his kindness, she marries off her daughter Xiao Cui (Li Bingbing), to his son Wang Yuanfeng (Jimmy Lin) who is mentally-challenged. The two eventually fall in love to lead a funny and interesting life.
A Bao
Sun Zichu (Yuan Hong) is a veterinarian who happens to cure the parrot of Zhao Abao (Rainie Yang), the daughter of a wealthy family. He falls in love with her at first sight, yet the envious Chai Shaoan (Cheung Tat-ming) places a curse on Abao, causing her to forget everything about Zichu.
Xiao Xie
Scholar Tao Wangsan (TAE) is a brave soul who has chosen to live inside a haunted house. He meets Qiurong (Huo Siyan), Xiaoxie (Tang Ning) and the other resident ghosts who eventually become his friends. Wangsan joins a competition to become the husband for the daughter of a rich family. His ghost friends help him win but just as he is about to be married, Xiao Xie realizes that she has already fallen in love with him.
Xiao Qian
Nie Xiaoqian (Yang Mi) is a fox demon who was supposed to seduce Ning Caichen (Hu Ge) in order to take his soul. However, Xiaoqian falls in love instead and becomes a slave of her own feelings for him.
Cast
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Kwong Wa as Wang Anxu |
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Zeng Li as Mei Sanniang |
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Joy Pan Yi Jun as Chen Chuhui |
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Jimmy Lin as Wang Yuanfeng |
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Li Bingbing as Xiao Cui |
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Yuan Hong as Sun Zichu |
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Rainie Yang as Zhao Abao |
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Huang Xiaoming as Bai Yang |
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Hu Ke as Zhang Xiaoman |
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Li-Chun Lee as Lu Pan |
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Bryan Wong as Zhu Erdan |
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Tae as Tao Wangsan |
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Leila Kong as Xiao Xie |
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Hu Ge as Ning Caichen |
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Yang Mi as Nie Xiaoqian |
Supporting Cast
- Yue Yueli as Zhang Daoshi
- Wan Yan as Princess Ming Xia
- Li Fei as Shi Yiming
- Law Lan as Aunt Wang
- Wang Lei as Shi Fei
- Pan Jie as Aunt Lin
- Wang Jingluan as Zi Yan
- Zhang Lei as Emperor
- Liu Lusheng as Chen Hanlin
- Liu Fang as Chen Fu Ren
- Li Shide as Zhao Rui / Man Xiang / Chen Pan
- Ma Huihui as Bao Mu
- Guo Minger as Seng Ren
- Jiang Xin as She Ji
- Lin Lipin as Yu Ji
- He Guilin as Wang Hongzhi
- Ji Linlin as Wang Pupin
- Zhang Shan as Emperor
- Dong Xian as Wang Fu Ren
- Zhou Zhong as Lei Shen
- Zhong Liang as Wang Jihong
- Ma Zijun as Gao Zai Xiang
- Cheung Tat-ming as Chai Shaoan
- Cheng Pei-pei as Miao Popo
- Ma Zhongde as Lu Benshan
- Liao Qiuwan as Gao Junning
- Zhou Lan as Xiao Rong
- Xia Zhixiang as Zhao Yuanwai
- Wang Wensheng as Yan Wang
- Wu Jiaojiao as Zhao Peiyu
- Guo Ming'er as E Gui / Yu Zu
- Shi Jia as Bei Bei
- Xu Chi as Chai Shao'an Shou Xia
- Jin Youming as He Da Fu
- Mei Xiaohui as Ke Shaorong
- Xu Min as Si Tupan
- Li Qingxiang as Emperor Dong Yue
- Xu Ming as Zhang Shiyu
- Dong Xian as Yuan Fengmu
- Zhu Haifei as Ren Yuanwu
- Wang Jianguo as Yang Danian
- Zhou Dehua as Wang Dahai
- Yang Guang as Er Danfu
- Zhang Lei as Hong Xiucai
- Zhang Bojun as Tong Zhifu
- Jin Youming as Wu Zuo / Jiang Fu Guan Jia
- Huo Siyan as Qiu Rong
- Lin Liwen as Jiang Qianqian
- Li Nan as Tian Daoshi
- Hai Bo as Jiang Shilang
- Wu Dandan as Chun Hua
- Ding Yujia as Xiao Bai
- Liu Jianrong as Hei Pan
- Lou Yajiang as Jiang Yaoxing
- Zhou Yunshen as Zhang Gongzi
- Eric Kot as Yan Chixia
- Yang Yanna as Shu Laolao
- Jeffrey Ji Chen as Chen Santai
- Wu Zhimin as Bing Er
- He Yijing as Xue Er
- Jiang Liwei as Xiao Shitou
- Yi Kun as Hao Se Shu Sheng
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