Uproar in Heaven, Monkey King, animated film (please help)

[shaneeca]

Thank heavens, I am NOT ALONE.

More people here that loves a movie which is so wonderful, but totally impossible to get!!

Unbelievable.

If ANYONE knows WHERE I can get this movie, I prefer ORIGINAL language (Mandarin) with English Subtitles.

Seen it twice on TV, somewhere around 1980.

One time on Dutch TV, and one time on the BBC.

I didn't have a VCR back then, and that's a damn pity.

Haven't seen an animation movie that was better....

And I've seen quite a few in my lifetime.

Please YELL if you know something.

I've written the Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands to get a fax or e-mail address from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

It's quite strange that they this movie isn't on DVD yet.

sherill@lycos.nl

I'm from Amsterdam/The Netherlands

[Davidh]

Wonderful! We're beginning to be quite a bunch of Europeans searching for this movie If you do get contact, please post it here

Swedish Television has this info on the film:

Titel: KUNG MARKATTA UPROAR IN HEAVEN (CHINA TV EXP AND IMP) [orig]

Sänt: 1978-12-23 21.04-22.50 TV2

Speltid:106.00

Repris:

1980-01-02 KL:17.40-18.25

1980-01-03 KL:17.45-18.22

1980-01-04 KL:17.59-18.30

Innehåll: EN KINESISK SAGA FÖR STORA OCH SMÅ. TECKNAD LÅNGFILM OM APKUNGEN SUN WU-KUNG

Anmärkning

Swedish title, English title, broadcast dates.. ..not that it helps our cause.. "China TV EXP AND IMP", didn't find that company trough google.

cheers!

David

[laolee]

UPROAR IN HEAVEN - 2 DVDS, if anyone is still looking for it.

40th Anniversary Edition came out in July (Chinese subs only):

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003740310/code-c/version-cn/section-videos/did-106/

[Davidh]

thanks, laolee, I'm still looking for it.

Too bad it's just chinese subs, it would have been so easy for them to include english subtitles. But thanks anyway, I'll e-mail them a question when/if they expect an international release.

nice DVD cover by the way.

[laolee]

I just watched this this week and really enjoyed, even without English subs. One thing, though, according to the bcdb.com entry, the original running time was 120 minutes, this version is about 85 minutes. Did not notice except the ending was possibly trimmed. Otherwise, fantastic!

Another plus that I didn't realize is that the disc also includes the 1941 b/w film Princess Iron Fan about 75 minutes long. What a great unexpected bonus.

[sfr@rcn.com]

I'm resurrecting this topic because I have the VCD set of the Shanghai Monkey King and the quality is horrible--blurry and dark. I saw it in Shanghai in the mid-Nineties and I know the quality is better than this. Someone commented that quality varies. I bought this from Chinasprout, which, one would think, would carry the best quality. I'm going to write them, although it's been about a year and a half (I think) since I bought it.

Sandra

[King]

Jag har det du söker! Så maila mig cain_makai@hotmail.com.

Om du fortfarande söker efter den förståss. ;)

[Outofin]

An old thread comes up again.

The monkey's story is not merely an animated film a Swedish boy came cross in his childhood. He's very hot and even presents some key values of our culture. I'm making a new thread because I wrote it a little bit long.

[Davidh]

Jag har det du söker! Så maila mig cain_makai@hotmail.com.

Om du fortfarande söker efter den förståss. ;)

Javisst. Du har fått e-mail!

(you've got mail )

I've also made an order on amazon.com for the book. Yes' date=' I am fascinated by this amazing Chinese story and I'll introduce it to my nephews.

Cheers!

[img']http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0962076511.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg[/img]

[karenzita]

But I think I was the only one who had it! My father recorded it on BETAMAX (yes.. BETAMAX!) and I looooved that film. I saw it with the original sound and a narrator in spanish, but now im looking for it either in english or spanish, preferebly subtitled.

I know nobody has posted anything in here for a few months, but if you have any information that might help me, that would be great!

I think I'm the only person in Venezuela and maybe latinoamerica that has seen that movie, or at least still remembers about it.

Thanks a lot for whatever help you may give me..

Chao

[horas]

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FYI David,

those cartoons are just episodes based from a classical Chinese novel (fantasy fiction) called 'Journey to the West' (Xi You Ji).

Probably you should consider reading that novel (highly recommended).

But I haven't succeeded in finding the complete (English) text online.

http://www.chinapage.com/monkey/monkey.html

http://www.monkeyheaven.com/books_literature.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/7119016636/103-8316348-8104664?v=glance&n=283155

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[foolip]

For all those interested, english subtitles are now on http://www.foolip.org/wiki/Uproar_in_Heaven

[楚留香]

And the DVD is available here:

Single disk

http://www.dangdang.com/product_detail/product_detail.asp?product_id=8877900

Double Disk

http://www.dangdang.com/product_detail/product_detail.asp?product_id=8893948

[shaneeca]

at yesasia. BUT unfortunately without English subtitles.

But great altogether to see this superb movie again...

[SunWukong]

What's the difference between the 1-disk and 2-disk DVD from dangdang.com? ie what's the additional material?

[foolip]

The 2-disc has some documentaries and... Princess Iron Fan (the first chinese animation ever, from 1941).

[Lucifer99]

you can now find a fan-subbed version with English subtitles here,

http://www.kurotokagi.com

Safe place to order from. I have bought several Japanese movies from that place.

//Lucifer99

[foolip]

I'd say it's a safe bet that the fan-subbed DVD mentioned above uses the subtitles provided on my wiki (translated by a chinese guy, edited by me). I actually don't mind, but the price is outrageous. You can still get a DVD with English subtitles on http://asiandvdclub.org, so don't bother paying for it.

[Lucifer99]

Nope, new translation by his own translator.

[foolip]

Really? It wouldn't happen to be your own work? Anyway, do you know what the source of the video is? Is it the 40th anniversary DVD?