Curious Tales of a Temple
2025, Chinese. Directed by Xie Junwei & Zou Jing & Cui Yuemei & Liu Yuan & Huang Heyu & Liu Yilin.
An epic animated fantasy anthology film intertwining six storylines from China's classic supernatural story collection "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" by Pu Songling. The six stories center on Lanruo Temple, an ancient ruin haunted by spirits. Weaving in classic tales like "Taoist from Laoshan Mountain," "Princess Lotus," "Nie Xiaoqian," "The Painted Skin" and "The Daughter of Magistrate Lu." These stories — spanning humans, ghosts and demons — explore love, death and morality against shifting time. The film merges six distinct styles into one anthology. For example, "Taoist from Laoshan Mountain" uses felt-textured animation, while "The Painted Skin" mirrors Song dynasty painting aesthetics.
- Runtime
- 2h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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Cast & crew
- Xie JunweiDirector
- Zou JingDirector
- Cui YuemeiDirector
- Liu YuanDirector
- Huang HeyuDirector
- Liu YilinDirector
- Lu LifengPu Songling (voice)
- Lin QiangLing Chan Shang Ren (voice)
- Zhang HeXuan Gui Zi (voice)
- Chen ZipingWang Cheng (voice)
- Fu BohanDou Xu (voice)
- Chen LinlingLotus Princess (voice)
- Liu XiaoyuXiao Qian (voice)
- Gu JiangshanNing Caichen (voice)
- Yihui XieMs. Chen (voice)
- Fu TingyunHua Pi Yao (voice)
- Yang MoMr. Wang (voice)
- Li ShimengLu Ying (voice)
Details
- Released
- 12 July 2025
- Original title
- 聊斋：兰若寺
- Country
- China
- Written by
- Shen Junle, Zhang Xuejie
- Box office
- $30M
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Who directed Curious Tales of a Temple?
Curious Tales of a Temple (2025) was directed by Xie Junwei and Zou Jing and Cui Yuemei and Liu Yuan and Huang Heyu and Liu Yilin and stars Lu Lifeng, Lin Qiang, Zhang He.