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Cartoon of the Week -- Nezha vs. the Dragon Kings
11 years ago
General
This is a classic Chinese animated feature film from 1979. It is based on a character from Taoist mythology.
Opening Title -- an introduction to the four Dragon Kings:
In this scene, Nezha battles the son of one of the dragons, for having stolen (and eaten) a child:
The rest of the movie is available on YouTube, and I highly recommend it. There's also a version dubbed into English (called "Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings"), but as is typical for most English dubs, it suffers from poor voice acting and gratuitous jokes and puns that weren't in the original script. At least the subtitled version tells you exactly what was really being said.
Opening Title -- an introduction to the four Dragon Kings:
In this scene, Nezha battles the son of one of the dragons, for having stolen (and eaten) a child:
The rest of the movie is available on YouTube, and I highly recommend it. There's also a version dubbed into English (called "Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings"), but as is typical for most English dubs, it suffers from poor voice acting and gratuitous jokes and puns that weren't in the original script. At least the subtitled version tells you exactly what was really being said.
I first saw "Nezha" as part of a collection of Chinese animation that was released on laserdisc in Japan. Another great film to look for is the short, "Bell on a Deer" (a/k/a "The Deer's Bell"), also produced at Shanghai Animation.