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Curious Tales of a Temple
Young scholar Pu Songling encounters danger while traveling and is forced to spend the night at Lanruo Temple. There, he is captured by a toad and a turtle and taken to the bottom of a mysterious ancient well. The two spirits compete in storytelling and force Pu Songling to judge the quality of his stories... Ultimately, forced into a corner, Pu Songling tells his own extraordinary tale. The film is structured in chapters, with a main plot, "Stories from the Well," and five adaptations of classic Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: "The Taoist of Laoshan," "Princess Lotus," "Nie Xiaoqian," "Painted Skin," and "The Lady of Duke Lu," totaling six chapters.
Young scholar Pu Songling encounters danger while traveling and is forced to spend the night at Lanruo Temple. There, he is captured by a toad and a turtle and taken to the bottom of a mysterious ancient well. The two spirits compete in storytelling and force Pu Songling to judge the quality of his stories... Ultimately, forced into a corner, Pu Songling tells his own extraordinary tale. The film is structured in chapters, with a main plot, "Stories from the Well," and five adaptations of classic Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio: "The Taoist of Laoshan," "Princess Lotus," "Nie Xiaoqian," "Painted Skin," and "The Lady of Duke Lu," totaling six chapters.