Thursday, September 28, 2006
Filmography: Uproar In Heaven (1941, 1961, 1964) Part One
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Cartoonist, illustrator, painter, Renaissance man Milton Knight stopped by the archive this week. He brought along a donation to the archive database... an amazing DVD of a trilogy of Chinese animated features called Uproar in Heaven...
Directed by Wan Laiming, written by Wai Laiming and Li Kuero, and animated by the Shanghai Animation Studio, these films are based on the "Monkey King Saga" which also inspired Alakazam the Great. The first installment of this series was produced in China in 1941, and the third was released in 1964. I'll be posting some frame grabs and a clip from the earliest episode on Saturday. Today, I'm presenting images and a clip from the second installment, released in 1961.
I'm afraid I know very little about these films. If you have information on the people who made them, please post the information to the comments link below, and I'll add them to this article.
Uproar In Heaven II (Chinese/1961)
(Quicktime 7 / 11.5 megs)
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5 Comments:
This film was directed by Wan Laiming, written by Wai Laiming and Li Kuero, and animated by the shanghai animation studio.
These legends also inspired the character Goku from Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball series. The whole monkey boy thing was used in alot of anime, although in Dragonball it was a combination of Moses, Superman, and Monkey King.
Dragonball Z later took away alot of the whimsical or magical mythology elements of Dragonball, like the Monkey King's pole, the cloud he flew on, and it became a non-stop acton series.
It kind of reminds me of a film called Hakuja Den, which supposedly is the first coloured japanese feature cartoon. It's based however on a chinese legend, and I don't think its style fits well the idea most people have of anime.
Anyway, thanks for posting those Steve, it's always nice to see animation from other countries.
They showed this monkey on Swedish TV back in the 80s a couple of times. I really liked it.
I remember seeing this when I was a young kid in the 80s. Brings back the memories. Didn't realise it was made so long ago...
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