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    Default Compilation of Monkey King movies

    I didn't find out about this movie until I was sitting on an Asian airline browsing thru the Asian movies section, and surprise, no pun intended. I liked the movie so much, it has lead me to start this thread. So here it is, a compilation of Monkey King movies.


    Surprise (2015) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHD-FtiEc2A


    Surprise (2015) MV:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L54CPHKNpCY


    Surprise (2015) full movie:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz3uVUQCS9E


    Box office: $49 million USD

    Synopsis:

    Surprise follows the day-to-day misadventures of a character called Dachui Wang as he navigates though various modern and classic situations.The little monster Wang Dachui, who was born with sharp ears & simple magic, made him different from the ordinaries. The local monster king, he thought he was. But to his surprise, on the one hand, his fate has changed since the encounter with Tang Monk, Monkey King, Piggy & Sand Monk. On the other hand, the meeting with Wang Dachui also should have been the great 82nd disaster to the four.

    Surprise (2015):

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    Index of Monkey King movies:

    The Yellow Dragon Cave and The Monkey King's Staff (Real-life Tourist Location) - page 1

    Surprise (2015) @ $45M USD - page 1


    Legend: Title @ Box office gross - page in thread
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    The Yellow Dragon Cave and The Monkey King's Staff (Real-Life Tourist Location):

    Where is 'The Yellow Dragon Cave' found?

    Answer: In Zhangjiajie, China

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    Yellow Dragon Cave

    The geological freak show that is Yellow Dragon Cave burrows farther into the ground than any other Asian cavern. And its entrance is adjacent to the waterfall-fed Baofeng Lake, constellated by temples.

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    The Monkey King's Staff is the name given to one of the tallest, naturally occurring stalagmites in Huanglong (Yellow Dragon) Cave:

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    Located in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, the Huanglong Cave has an amazing stalagmite called “Golden Sea Needle” that got its name from the legendary weapon of the Monkey King. Ata height of 19.2 meters, the stalagmite surprises people not with its height, but with its incredible slender body: this giant formation with such a height has a diameter of merely 10 cm at its thinnest point. Besides all these things mentioned above, it is also an “expensive” stalagmite, because the manager of the cave had it insured for 100 million yuan in 1998. Photo/ Sun Jianhua
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    One of the largest stalagmite was an extremely large one which they had bathed in golden light making it look like a golden rod.
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    Went there and took a picture of the stalagmite myself with my grainy tablet digital camera (dated Oct 2016):

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    Not really a movie. But...

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    http://m.chinadaily.com.cn/en/2016-1...t_27661369.htm

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    Monkey King gets moving on paper

    By Mei Jia(China Daily)
    Updated: 2016-12-14 07:01:01

    Havoc in Heaven, the first large pop-up book inspired by Journey to the West, hits the shelves. Mei Jia reports.

    A work that embodies the spirit of craftsmanship, Havoc in Heaven is the first large pop-up book that has the much-loved Monkey King story from an ancient Chinese classic going 3-D on paper.

    The book, which has been on the market since November, is not only being appreciated by young Chinese readers who see the book at fairs or other events, but it is also gaining attention and copyright requests from publishers overseas.

    Alizee Dabert, the foreign rights manager at Gallimard Jeunesse and the publisher of the pop-up Le Petit Prince, says she is very optimistic about the global market potential of the pop-up version of Journey to the West.

    "It's a well-known and important story, popular among Chinese kids as well as adults. And its paper-art design is remarkable," says Dabert.

    The book features six scenes from the story-including the birth of the Monkey King from a rock, his enthronement as the leader of the monkeys and his combat with the emperor of heaven.

    The latest publication is based on an award-winning cartoon film released by Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1964.

    The book was published after Xi'an-based Lelequ, a pop-up book brand under the Ronshin Group, won the adaptation rights in 2014.

    The publisher spent two years working with a team of 10 to turn more than 70,000 paintings and pictures into the 300 components that the book comprises.

    "We did more than 2,000 revisions to create the beautiful and intricate pop-ups. Sometimes we were so exhausted that we wanted to drop the project, but we persisted," says Sun Zhaozhi, the book designer and deputy general manager of the group. Sun also says the scene which shows a battle with an army from heaven took the team half a year to complete.

    Yan Dingxian, the brain behind the image of the Monkey King in the cartoon film, said at an event in Shanghai in November that he had gone to the Peking Opera for inspiration to create it.

    Speaking about Lelequ's effort to pay tribute to tradition and carry it forward in a form that is both innovative and appealing to readers, Yan Hongbing, 49, the paper-art designer of many of Lelequ's books over the past decade, says he had always wanted to make an original version of the Monkey King-a character he has loved since childhood-after he saw a pop-up version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 2003.

    "Then (in 2003), I was amazed by the way the content became vivid with the characters bouncing around, but I soon realized that in our literary tradition there are many stories that are suitable to be turned into such books-with strong characters, grand scenes and dramatic conflicts," says Yan.

    In the book, there is a scene where the Monkey King retrieves his legendary weapon-the golden cudgel-from the East Sea Dragon King's palace.

    As the story unfolds over the pages, the cudgel bounces up to a height of around 40 centimeters.

    Explaining how he achieved this, Yan says: "This is a detail that I racked my brain to get right. I studied many books, made as many models as I could, and finally I devised a technique called 'secondary boost'."

    Yan also invited illustrator Huang Li and her team from the Taiyang Wa Illustration Studio to help with the book.

    Describing her role, Huang says: "Respecting tradition is not simply using ink wash painting or paper-cutting techniques. We traced the religious origin of the story and took images and colors from the Dunhuang frescoes in Gansu province. For instance, the Thunder God's image comes from his Dunhuang prototype."

    Huang's colleague Li Chunmiao says due to their research they used only colors like black, gray, yellow, red and indigo that are traditional to Chinese paintings.

    Thus the book's seven fairies and clouds are inspired by Dunhuang, but are presented in a contemporary artistic language, says Li.

    The illustrations in the book were redone three times after the first samples were produced to get the 3-D effects right.

    Essayist Yuan Qiuxiang, who was in charge of writing the story, says the story is told from a global perspective. "The language is colloquial."

    Commenting on the book, Lin Wen-Pao, a Taiwan-based Taitung University professor of children's literature, says China bought the copyrights of 4,000 picture books last year, while creating just 2,000 original titles. "But now, we finally have a decent and luxurious pop-up book telling our own story, recreating our history and memories."

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    And now the moment you've all been waiting for... The compilation of Monkey King movies.

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    ACO (1995) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niy5PmFzgLA


    ACO (1995) comedy clip:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT0u6RRZ3fQ


    Box office: 25 million HKD

    Synopses:

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    The adventures of the King Monkey that must break a curse.

    One nomination at the 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards : Best Screenplay (Jeff Lau)

    - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards 1996
    Best Actor : Stephen Chow
    Best Screenplay : Jeff Lau
    Film of Merit
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    Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.

    A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora's Box (1995)

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    ACO 2 (1995) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK93BzuGG-U


    ACO 2 (1995) song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQpHBcoo6-8


    Box office: 20 million HKD

    Synopsis:

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    The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.

    A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995):

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    Paprika (2006) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7U1KIGeuQ


    Box office: $1 million USD

    Synopsis:

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    When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

    Paprika (2006):

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    MM (2007) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ1Tl5ucar4


    Box office: $37 million USD

    Synopsis:

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    On the way to India to get some holy scrolls, priest Tripitaka and his followers are led by Monkey and implored by a princess to protect her people from a warlord and his brother. They've taken control of the palace and its riches and turned the royal family into terrapin tortoises. Monkey and co must defeat the evil warlords.

    Monkey Magic (2007):

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    BOMM (2008) full clip:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr5ZWYRaAyw


    Beijing Olympics Monkey Movie (2008):

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    TFK (2008) trailer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txb687aJtEU


    TFK (2008) Jet Li segment:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-PoBtwmP-o


    Box office: $27 million USD

    Synopses:

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    Legendary martial arts stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li come together onscreen for the first time ever in director Rob Minkoff's time-traveling take on the Monkey King fable that finds an American teen transported back to ancient China after wandering into a pawn shop and discovering the king's fighting stick. Once there, the adventurous teen joins an army of fierce warriors who have sworn to free their imprisoned king at all costs. In addition to appearing as the mythical Monkey King, Li assumes the role of a silent monk, and Chan appears in the role of kung fu master Lu Yan. Famed action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping presides over the fight sequences.
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    A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

    The Forbidden Kingdom (2008):

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