Creepy ghost wedding custom featured in 'The Ghost Bride' on Netflix


Set in Melaka, the series opens with 20-year-old Li Lan who is pressured to marry the only son of a wealthy family. There’s just one catch: he’s deceased. — Photos: Handout

A certain amount of pressure is to be expected when making a series for Netflix, an international streaming service with viewers in over 190 countries.

But local director Quek Shio Chuan – who is helming Netflix’s first Mandarin original series from Malaysia, The Ghost Bride – describes it as feeling more of a “positive pressure”.

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