Overview
A Chinese Odyssey Part 1-Pandora's Box and A Chinese Odyssey Part Two-Cinderella
10,000 years of love, 500 years of time travel – Monkey King, reincarnated as Joker, makes his way across reality and illusion, just to ask what love is all about. In Part I, gang leader Joker meets Spider Woman and Bak Jing-jing – the two demons who plan to capture Longevity Monk. Joker falls in love with Bak Jing-jing at first sight but fails to save her fate from committing suicide due to misunderstanding. In Part II, the Pandora's Box that can open up a time portal encounters a problem and accidentally brings Joker back to 500 years ago, where he meets Fairy Zixia and fulfils the prophecy of becoming Monkey King.
As a remake of the classical novel Journey to the West, the film reinvents the relationships, personalities, and causes and effects of the story to tell a fable of contemporary love in a subversive manner. Comical yet tragical in an extreme way, the two episodes are playful in attitude but serious in love – not only created countless buzzwords and memorable scenes but also marked the most distinctive performance of comedy king Stephen Chow. Filling with nonsensical gags in vulgar taste while exploring the weight of love and longing with subtlety, the two seem to be contradictory but coexist in a paradoxical way, reflecting the one-of-a-kind flavour of Hong Kong cinema.
Director: Jeffrey Lau
1995 | Colour | Cantonese | Chinese and English subtitles | 87mins (Part 1) 99mins (Part 2)
Licensed by Media Asia Film Distribution (HK) Limited. All rights reserved.
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Another World
In the netherworld for the dead, a little girl who died of famine and poverty is waiting for Little Ghost's guide to reincarnation, but she is reluctant to give up her past – she hopes to reunite with her missing brother who died young and became food for her family. The film brings together an excellent drawing, animation, dubbing and music team to create a fantasy world of vivid colours and unrestrained imaginations.
Director: Tommy Ng
2019 | Colour | Cantonese | Chinese and English Subtitles | 14mins
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