A Chinese Ghost Story 1 (1987)

A Chinese Ghost Story 1 1987 / 倩女幽魂 1987 / The Ethereal Spirit of a Beauty , Sien Nui Yau Wan , Chien Nu Yu Hun

Ning Tsai Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself around its victims and sucks out their life essence (or 'yang element'). (Source: IMDb)