My Years Catching Ghosts in the Urban Village

Wang Goudan runs a shroud shop in an urban village. He never mastered the mediocre Daoist arts passed down in his family, but he’s perfected a mash-up of Sichuan-Chongqing, Northeastern, and Henan-style swearing! After accidentally binding himself to a “Comedy Ghost-Hunting System,” he has to roast ghosts in authentic local dialects to earn “laugh points,” or get electrocuted until he’s crispy on the outside.

He has to deal with Liu Kousou, a stingy neighbor from Shanxi who charges by the second to exorcise ghosts, while fending off the suona attacks of Zhao Tiedan, a stubborn deliveryman from Henan. He also trades barbs with Li Cuihua, his fiery Sichuan-Chongqing landlady, as she chases him for rent, and brings along Zhang Dadan, his cowardly Northeastern buddy who mooches food and drink.

There’s the boss ghost who clings to a 3.5-yuan payment after dying in a fit of rage over a bad review, and the old ghost who keeps playing “Little Apple” on loop at the public square dance... One bizarre evil ghost after another takes the stage. Wang Goudan declares, “Who gives a damn about ghosts! I’ll curse you in dialect until your resentment fades and you get to reincarnate!” And so begins a hilarious ghost-hunting extravaganza, full of everyday charm!