Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix
Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix
Stephen McCarty
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The Ghost Bride on Netflix: a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller set in 1890s Malacca

  • The show follows Pan Li Lan, a young woman chosen to wed Lim Tian Ching, the only catch is that he is dead
  • Thus unfolds a murder mystery that crosses corporeal and spiritual planes, all set in colourful, colonial Malacca

Stephen McCarty
Stephen McCarty

Updated: 9:41am, 16 Feb, 2020

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Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix
Peijia Huang (left) as Pan Li Lan and Ludi Lin as Lim Tian Bai in a still from The Ghost Bride, a Taiwanese-Malaysian thriller now streaming on Netflix. Photo: Netflix
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