#Wan Laiming

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Havoc in Heaven (1961)

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大鬧天宮 / Dà nào tiān gōng (Havoc in Heaven)

113 in x of animated feature film history Release: 1964 Country: China Director: Wan Laiming

“The story is based on the earliest chapters of the Ming Dynasty shenmo novel Journey to the West. The main character is Sun Wukong, aka the Monkey King, who rebels against the Jade Emperor of heaven.

Wan Guchan, of the Wan Brothers and one of the animators of the feature film Princess Iron Fan, began planning the production of Havoc in Heaven––sometimes called Uproar in Heaven––after its release in 1941. However, the project was delayed for over a decade after the Japanese capture of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and later by the Chinese Civil War.

Wan Laiming returned to Shanghai as director of Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1954, and production of Havoc in Heaven resumed shortly thereafter. The first part of the film was completed in 1961 by Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan. The second part was completed in 1964 with the assistance of Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan. Both parts of the film were screened together for the first time in 1965. This was the last major animated film of the Second Golden Era of Cinema of China. A year later, the entire industry was effectively shut down by the Cultural Revolution.

The name of the movie (大闹天宫) became a colloquialism in the Chinese language to describe someone making a mess. Countless cartoon adaptations that followed have reused the same classic story Journey to the West, yet many consider this 1964 iteration to be the most original, fitting and memorable.

The film won great acclaim after putting on the screen. It received Best Film Award at the 13th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the 12th London International Film Festival respectively, enjoying high reputation both at home and abroad.

At the time, the film was also used as a joke metaphor for the ‘havoc’ being caused by Mao Zedong (the monkey) in ‘heaven’ (China).”

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Havoc in Heaven is available on YouTube.

FIRST POSTED: 12/2/16

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Tezuka Osamu Story: I am Son-Goku (1989) 手塚治虫物語 ぼくは孫悟空

Director: Osamu Tezuka Screenwriter: Osamu Tezuka Starring: Kuniwa Ishii / Tsui Kusao / Kyouji Kobayashi / Mari Shimizu / Kosei Tomita / Yoshiko Fujita / Momi Koyama / Mayumi Tanaka / Kenji Utsumi / Tetsuya Asado / Kaibo Kawakubo / Hisashi Katsuda / Ichiro Nagai / Kaneto Shiozawa / Nishio Germany / Masuoka Hiroshi Genre: Drama / Animation / Fantasy Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 1989-08-27 Duration: 70 minutes Also known as: 手冢治虫物语 我的孙悟空 / 手塚治虫物語：我的孫悟空 IMDb: tt1654078 Type: Crossover

Summary:

This is the 12th special animated program for "24-hour Television: Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu." The first half of the story is an autobiographical animated piece focused on the episode in which the young boy Tezuka Osamu becomes attracted to the Chinese animated work "Tessen Koshu." Then it uses some episodes from Son-goku to depict how he eventually becomes an animation writer. The latter half is a new science fiction version of Son-goku set against a background of Planet Sapphire in the Galaxy of 3010. This is one of Tezuka Osamu's posthumous works. He unfortunately passed away during the planning stages.

At the world premiere, Takamasa Matsutani, president of Japan's "Tezuka Animation Production Co., Ltd.", accepted an interview with the "International Herald Herald". He revealed a rather touching past incident.

Osamu Tezuka began to create this different Sun Wukong in 1952, and made it into a comic "My Son Goku" and serialized it in a magazine. When creating, Osamu Tezuka also considered using the image of Peking Opera facial makeup, but in the end he making Sun Wukong like a bear perhaps to show the difference. When he died in 1989, he left the draft of the animated film "My Son Goku" in the world. This was also Osamu Tezuka's last animated work.

The indissoluble bond between Osamu Tezuka and Sun Wukong dates back to when he was in middle school. At that time, he watched the cartoon "Princess Iron Fan" produced by the brothers Wan Laiming, the founder of Chinese animation, and made up his mind to make animation his lifelong career. Therefore, there were later cartoons and animated characters such as "Astro Boy" and "Jungle King" that grew up with a generation. It was his comics and animations that saved the Japanese animation industry, which was on the verge of collapse at the time. "My Son Goku" also records the friendship between Osamu Tezuka and Wan Laiming.

Matsutani Takamasa said: "Mr. Wan is the person that Mr. Tezuka respects and admires the most. Many people think that Mr. Tezuka is more influenced by Disney animation. In fact, he was influenced earlier by Chinese animation, especially Mr. Wan's animation, and more profound.” In 1988, Osamu Tezuka came to China and paid a special visit to Wan Laiming, who was already in his seventies. After returning to Japan, Tezuka Osamu completed the draft of his last animated film "My Son Goku" and wrote "This is my Son Goku" on the title page. "After he visited Mr. Wan, he already knew that he would die soon and completed "My Son Goku". Before his death, he used his work to say hello to Mr. Wan and tell Mr. Wan, 'I'm going.'" When he said this, Matsutani Xiaozheng's tone was a little heavy.

In 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Astro Boy's birth, Tezuka released the cartoon "My Son Goku", to which Osamu Tezuka devoted special emotions to.

Source: https://tezukaosamu.net/en/anime/63.html

Link: https://gogoanime.be/watch/tezuka-osamu-monogatari-boku-wa-son-goku-WYPj-episode-full/

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Favorite First Time Watches of 2024 (Animation, Part 2)

31. Curious Alice (1971) directed by Dave Dixon

32. Nimona (2023) directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane

33. 大鬧天宮/大闹天宫 (Havoc in Heaven/Uproar in Heaven, 1961) directed by 萬籟鳴/万籁鸣 (Wan Laiming)

34. Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) directed by Owen Hurley

35. The Monkey King (2023) directed by Anthony Stacchi

36. The Bad Guys (2022) directed by Pierre Perifel

37. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) directed by Tex Avery

38. Witch's Night Out (1978) directed by John Leach

39. Rapunzel (2019) directed by Juan Pablo Machado

40. ベルトかいじゅう王子 (Beauty and the Beast, 1976) directed by 渡辺和彦 (Kazuhiko Watanabe)

41. Вій (Viy, 1996) directed by Леонід Зарубін (Leonid Zarubin) and Алла Грачова (Alla Grachyova)

42. La jeune fille et les nuages (The Young Girl and the Clouds, 2001) directed by Georges Schwizgebel

43. Снежная королева (The Snow Queen, 1957) directed by Лев Атаманов/Լևոն Ատամանյան (Lev Atamanov)

44. 逃猫ジュレ (Runnin' Away Gelée, 2016) directed by 株式会社ディー・エル・イー (DLE Inc./Dream Link Entertainment)

45. 哪吒鬧海/哪吒闹海 (Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, 1979) directed by 王树忱 (Wang Shuchen), 严定宪 (Yan Dingxian), and 徐景达 (Xu Jingda)

46. 少女ノスフェラトゥ (Nosferatu Maiden, 2017) directed by 谷口ちなみ (Chinami Taniguchi)

47. Destino (2003) directed by Dominique Monféry

48. Dance with the Seashells! (2023) directed by Théo Carme, Julie Fournier, Alessandra Rosamarino, and Anaëlle Saba

49. 世界名作童話 白鳥の湖 (Swan Lake, 1981) directed by 矢吹 公郎 (Kimio Yabuki)

50. I Am from Palestine (2023) directed by Iman K. Zawahry [Operation Olive Branch, Gaza Funds, Decolonize Palestine, eSIMS for Gaza, & arab.org]

51. Blood Bound (2023) directed by Lyly Hoang

52. Candy.zip (2017) directed by 見里朝希 (Tomoki Misato)

53. Chainsaw Maid Episode 0 (2010) directed by ていえぬ (Takena Nagao)

54. Girl X (2019) directed by ていえぬ (Takena Nagao)

55. MAID OF THE DEAD (2013) directed by ていえぬ (Takena Nagao)

56. The Name (2023) directed by Alexander Aguilar

57. Pandemonium (2023) directed by Lucille Rizzo, Louise Bailliet, Candice Loret, Olivia Gombault, and Lilou Martin

58. My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas (2005) directed by Vic Dal Chele

59. The Gruffalo (2009) directed by Max Lang and Jakob Schuh

60. Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) directed by Steve Moore

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The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (1961)

Wan Laiming

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Princess Iron Fan (1941)

The first asian animated movie

So here's a funny story of mine: during the pandemic two of my friends became obsessed over the show "Lego Monkie Kid" and because it became a hyper fixation to them they, naturally, got me into the show as well and god was I hooked as well and became a fixation for me too.

It's a gorgeous show, one that I heavily recommend but this story is not about that show because while I did know the entire show was based on the book "Journey to the West" I didn't know until looking at a list of released films during the 40's, is that a certain character of the show had not only an animated film but even held the crown for being one of the most important animated films in history.

This is the story of the animated movie of Princess Iron Fan

A dream among the war

In 1937 China was in complete caos. The Japanese started to conquer parts of China in an attempt to get more territory, this lead to the Shanghai War (August 13, 1937 to November 26, 1937). This war lead to many casualties, from civilians to buildings, people were quickly displaced in order to evade the war. Four of these people were the Wan Brothers: Guchan, Laiming, Chaochen and Dihuan.

Now the brothers were interested in animation and were mainly inspired by American cartoons and have even made some animated shorts like "Uproar in the Studio" (1924) and "The Camel's Dance (1935) which was the first animation with sound in China. So they had more than enough skills to create a full length film and when "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" came out in 1937 they were determined to create if it wasn't for the fact that, well, China was in war. When the war broke out 3 of the brothers left Shanghai and fled to Wuhan while the youngest of the four, Dihuan, stayed in Shanghai to help family. During their time in Wuhan, the three brothers started working for the China Motion Pictures Studio to make anti Japanese propaganda but when things became less stable in Wuhan and some film company were back in business the brothers decided to return so they could finally make a film. And then Chaochen decided to stay in Wuhan.... So now the two brothers, Guchan and Laiming returned to Shanghai to make their film and oh wait they are still in war. Originally the brothers wanted to make a fully colored animated film of "Uproar in Heaven" but the price for film became incredibly expensive so that idea was scrapped and that resulted in:

Princess Iron Fan's production

With over 300 workers on the film and a total of 20,000 drawings in the end you would think that production went smooth sailing right?

Okey so there were a lot of problems the brothers faced

Problem number 1: The crew

Here's the thing about being the first in something, it means no one else knows how to do that thing. While the people working in the studio knew something about art non of them knew how to animate, so while the brothers were doing stunning shots for the movie, the trainees fell short this lead to two things

Guchan had to supervise the animators and even provide training so that the production could reach Disney standard

They had to make models so that animators could use as reference by placing the figures inside a replica of the set which means buying more things = using more money

Problem number 2: War

Yeah it's pretty obvious that the war was the mayor roadblock of the brother's career. War made not only film expensive but the materials to make it expensive, this crucial because in order to complete the movie they needed two things: A rotoscope, which allowed animators to trace the movements of prerecorded live action film to make the movement in humans look more natural and smooth. And a Multiplane camera, so that they could move not only the background accordingly to the story but also create more dynamic scenes with the background like being able to zoom in or out on the environment.

Problem number 3: Who is even going to watch it?

Shanghai was deserted compared to how it usually was (for obvious reasons) leading to the fear that the film was going to fail to the point that even their investor, Zhang Shangen, wanted to leave the project completely.

And yet against all odds on November 19th, 1942 the movie was premiere in the Metropol and Astor Theatre cinemas in Shanghai. And it became a success.

The story is very simple compared to the beast that is the novel of Journey to the West. Basically the monkey king, Sun WuKong, and some villagers went to Princess Iron Fan asking to borrow her fan to put out a fire that was spreading. Iron Fan refuses leading to WuKong fighting her and making things even more complicated when the Bull King, Iron Fan's husband, get involved. In the end WuKong gets the fan and saves the village.

Not all stories have a happy ending....

Unfortunately though, the brothers would never be able to make another breakthrough in the animated industry again. While they did make eventually "Uproar in Heaven" in the 1960's and Disney offering them an invite to his studio. The majority of the films the brothers wanted to produce and even started were either destroyed by the war or did not have the budget for it. They also refused Disney's invitation to join him in the USA leading to now the brothers being not very known by people in the West. While I truly don't doubt that they are probably very well known in China, it's honestly a shame that they didn't get the recognition they deserved considering everything they went through to make it but well that's just how the story of the first asian animated movie "Princess Iron Fan" ends. Until next time (watch lego monkey kid btw)

References

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014051 https://www.jiemian.com/article/656867.html https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2023/1/18/the-world-of-movies-princess-iron-fan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Laiming#Achievements

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Uproar in Heaven (1961–1964), dir. Wan Laiming and Tang Cheng, Shanghai Animation Film Studio

Beautiful animation of fairy that looks very similar to Korean fairies. I wonder what the origin of these fairies are. They have specific hairstyle and clothes…

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Princess Iron Fan

Wan Guchan & Wan Laiming China, 1941

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Ah, yes. This age-old debate.

It’s actually really interesting!! Since I’m basically swamped and drowning in research for my thesis (comparing Nezha 1979 and Nezha 2019 with a focus on national style), the history of Chinese animation (which is interconnected with the history of Japanese animation) is on my mind, so I guess I’m cracking my knuckles and prepping myself to talk about the “godfather of anime” and creator of Astro Boy and Kimba himself, Osamu Tezuka.

Creation is...circular. People are always influencing one another.

As my research has taught me, Osamu Tezuka actually saw the first feature-length 1941 Chinese animated film (also the first feature-length animated film in all of Asia), Princess Iron Fan, as a teen. It heavily inspired him.

You can actually see the impact Princess Iron Fan had on him from this clip of his autobiographical film:

https://youtu.be/36OfEZ3e4xY

(Fun fact: at the time of Princess Iron Fan’s release, Japan was occupying China, so a lot of Japanese people actually saw the film. Japanese critics even said their animation industry should learn from the movie. It did technically have an anti-Japanese message in that it encouraged people to band together and fight the enemy, but Japan let it slide, especially since the creators of the film, the Wan brothers (who are essentially China’s Disney), played up the fact it was an accomplishment for all of East Asia, which Japan wanted united under Japan, so they touted it as an achievement of Japan’s too.)

(Fun fact continued: the Japanese navy also saw Princess Iron Fan and commissioned a Japanese director to make Japan’s first feature-length animated movie, Momotarō Umi no Shinpei, which was a propaganda film for the Japanese side of the war that they could show their colonies, with an anti-American message. It was released too late in 1945 when the war was winding down though, so most of Japan’s colonies didn’t see it, but Osamu Tezuka did, and I believe he’s quoted as saying he was moved to tears by it).

Okay, now back to the story:

Osamu Tezuka found inspiration in Princess Iron Fan, even making manga centering around Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Sun Wukong is a popular Chinese mythical hero who’s been adapted into media a lot (including by the Wan brothers), and Princess Iron Fan is one of the stories from the Ming dynasty novel that featured Sun Wukong, Journey to the West.

(Bonus fun fact: Sun Wukong is actually the inspiration for Dragon Ball too! Son Goku’s name is literally just Sun Wukong in Japanese.)

In fact, he was so inspired, when he got to adapting the Princess Iron Fan part of Journey to the West for his manga, he admitted he couldn’t stop thinking about the 1941 animated movie and felt like he plagiarized it too much in his manga. Kind of ironic, considering the Kimba and Simba debate. 😆

Osamu Tezuka’s very own first animated film was in fact an adaptation of Sun Wukong with Toei Animation (the movie was imported into the US as Alakazam the Great. God that title... Turning Sun Wukong’s name into Alakazam sure is...something).

Osamu Tezuka saw Wan Laiming, the most famous of the Wan brothers, as an inspirational figure and wanted to meet him. He got his wish, going to China to meet Wan Laiming in 1981 after Osamu Tezuka learned he himself had cancer, with the two of them even drawing their most famous characters together:

(Astro Boy hanging out with the Wan brother’s version of Sun Wukong, which is also one of his most famous renditions—most Chinese people will instantly recognize this design of Sun Wukong from the 1961-64 film Uproar in Heaven).

Osamu Tezuka even made a speech about the impact the Wan brothers and Sun Wukong had on him at the event, which is pretty cool!

He’s even written a greeting card for Wan Laiming:

Fun fact (I know, I know, I’m inserting a lot of fun facts): Osamu Tezuka also received influence from Disney (as did the Wan brothers—they arguably mostly learned from the Fleischer brothers, but Princess Iron Fan happened because Wan Laiming and his brothers saw Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in China). Pictured below is a card that Osamu Tezuka wrote Carl Barks, who made Disney comics:

As for Osamu Tezuka and Wan Laiming’s budding friendship from their 1981 meeting, I believe he unfortunately passed away soon after, preventing them from meeting again. 😔

Now before I continue on about Osamu Tezuka, some of you might be wondering why China doesn’t have more notable animated movies from the twentieth century if they started innovating with Princess Iron Fan. You can actually blame the Cultural Revolution for that, as things got super complex after China was left devastated from the Second World War. Mao Zedong took over and while at first he supported the arts and wanted to elevate artistic standards, letting artists create whatever they want, he eventually changed his mind due to Soviet influence as China tried to stick with socialist realism (making mostly realistic cartoons that could also serve as propaganda).

This is actually why the first part of Uproar in Heaven, released in 1961, was well-received and celebrated while the second part of Uproar in Heaven, released in 1964, was criticized and later banned. At first, it was seen as good art, with Sun Wukong rebelling against China’s old gods. But by the second part, the Cultural Revolution’s focus had shifted and it thus became seen as a sign of rebellion against Mao’s government and/or a sign of art that didn’t serve the common people (because it wasn’t realistic).

It wasn’t until 1979 that China would make another iconic animated movie (Nezha Conquers the Dragon King). But by then the damage had been done and China was forced to play catch-up in the industry, with Japan already having set itself as a powerful innovator in the animation industry.

And of course, as the “godfather of anime,” Osamu Tezuka played a large role in establishing Japan as the animation powerhouse it is today.

Kind of ironic and really fascinating!

Especially since China is now making its own animated series (donghua), and many of them have a clear anime influence on them. As I mentioned in a video presentation (made for my Chinese class) about Chinese animation, this is also because in playing catch-up, Chinese animation studios did a lot of outsourcing for Japanese animation. That, and because after China opened up in the 1980s, they got a lot of animated series imported from Japan, so plenty of today’s donghua creators grew up watching anime.

(Wow, would you look at all that anime influence? Guess what comes around, goes around... From Fleischer & Disney -> Wan Brothers -> Osamu Tezuka -> anime -> Chinese donghua... And even then, inspiration is again circular, and not nearly as neat/linear as what I just listed. 😉 )

Now a few more thoughts on Osamu Tezuka himself before I finish this post...:

The warthog with a spanking kink thing makes me think again about how...Osamu Tezuka’s art definitely wasn’t always for children (he had his...fetishes? Including transformations).

Saberspark also recently reviewed his adult animated movie, Cleopatra.

He was definitely an artistically creative man and an important forefather of the anime industry, but he had his unique points. And based on the summary of Kimba and how it even has pro-colonization themes, I guess he had some yikes to him too. Kinda makes sense...he did grow up during Japan’s aggressive military conquering in the Second World War... 😬

I guess what I’m getting at is that yeah! Stories get told over and over again and influences are everywhere. Even the mighty Osamu Tezuka, who so many put on a pedestal due to his innovation and his creation of Astro Boy (which gets even furthered by people who believe Disney plagiarized his Kimba in making their Simba), actually pulled inspiration from other places too—and from an unlikely, not-often-talked-about source too: Chinese animation, the Wan brothers, and Sun Wukong.

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#10 Princess Iron Fan (1941)

Princess Iron Fan is the very first Chinese animated feature, based on a passage in Journey to the West, a sixteenth century Chinese novel. Three apprentices to some sort of wizard (I think) have to cross this fiery, demon-filled mountain range, and to do so must get the Princess to wake her magic fan and blow out the fires.

I never got to this part of the movie, but that’s the fan.

The animation is really cool and ambitious, but it has a lot of the same problems that Gulliver’s Travels does - the characters don’t seem to move quite right, and there isn’t any reason to care about them much. I also have trouble enjoying the sense of physical humor in early Asian animation (It tends to skip over funny and go straight into the bizarre for me) but that’s just me being American.

For example, the pig guy removes his ear and fans himself with it at some point, and that was a little frightful.

The most endearing thing about it is that it doesn’t look anything like Disney’s work, nor does it look anything like a precursor to anime. It actually reminds me most of Adventure Time and those other TV cartoons that are popular now. The print I watched looks like it was scraped off the bottom of something, which is unfortunate, but I guess no one has bothered to remaster and re-release Princess Iron Fan. It’s really interesting, but not very good.

The Amazon Prime copy all looks about like this.

I didn’t think much of anything about this movie, but I definitely look forward to seeing later Chinese animation.

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24 Chinese Animated Movies to Watch

24 Chinese Animated Movies to Watch

A list of Chinese animated films of all time, including adaptations of the Chinese folklore, fantasy & sci-fi movies, and a few surprises.

From family-friendly movies to drama, to classics.

Classics Princess Iron Fan by Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan (1941)

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Wan Laimingpioneered the Chinese…

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behind the scenes: an animator using a mirror to better animate Sun Wukong’s expressions

大鬧天宮 / Dà nào tiān gōng (Havoc in Heaven)

1964 China Wan Laiming

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filed under: China, 1960s, staff

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Princess Iron Fan (1941) 鐵扇公主

Director: Wan Laiming / Wan Guchan Screenwriter: Wang Ganbai Starring: Bai Hong / Yan Yueling / Jiang Ming / Han Langen / Yin Xiucen Genre: Drama / Animation / Fantasy Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 1941-01-01 (Mainland China) Duration: 72 minutes (China) / 65 minutes (Japan) Also know as: Princess Iron Fan IMDb: tt0471945 Type: Retelling

Summary:

The four master and disciples of Tang Monk rushed to the west, and gradually felt the heat steaming over them. When asking about the countryside, they learned that this place is called the Flame Mountain. There is no spring or autumn, it is hot all year round, and there are 800 miles of flames surrounding the mountain. Frustrated by the Flame Mountain, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie went to the Banana Cave in Cuiping Mountain to ask Princess Iron Fan to borrow a banana fan to extinguish the fire, but Princess Iron Fan refused to lend it. Sun Wukong turned into a bug and got into Princess Iron Fan's belly to make a fuss, but what he got was a fake fan. Zhu Bajie transformed into the Bull Demon King and tricked Princess Iron Fan into getting a real fan. The Bull Demon King was having fun with the Vixen at this time. When he heard that the fan had been taken away, he quickly returned home, and then transformed into the appearance of Sun Wukong and deceived the fan back from Zhu Bajie. At the end of the film, Wukong, Bajie, and the villagers teamed up to defeat the Bull Demon King, finally obtain the treasure fan, extinguish the fire of the Flame Mountain, and embark on the journey to learn the scriptures.

The Bull Demon King in the film is actually an allusion to the Anti-Japanese War, and the Wan brothers wanted to use this film to inspire the enthusiasm of the people across the country. This film is China's first full-length three-dimensional sound cartoon (animated film). Osamu Tezuka was also influenced by "Princess Iron Fan" and decided to engage in the animation industry.

Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/1466022/

Link: https://youtu.be/ocUp840yj2c

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Today’s animated film is: “The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven” (1963)

“The mischievous Monkey King acquires the famed As-You-Will Gold-Banded Cudgel and goes up against the might of the Jade Emperor.“

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The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven (1961)

Wan Laiming