Dan Duyu
1897 (127 лет)盘丝洞
Dan Duyu
Yin Mingzhu, Ng Man-Chiu
One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters who took the form of seven beautiful women. The Monkey King and the other two of Xuanzang's disciples managed to rescue him with the help of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva/Guanyin. They renounced the desire for lust and continued the quest for Buddhist Scriptures.
The Cave of the Silken Web
New Arabian Nights (Xin tianfang ye tan 新天方夜譚)
Dan Duyu
Yuwen Cui, Hua Meng
Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package with New Arabian Nights. Dan's vision is definitely not bound by the source material, but his magical and music-filled version of the orient turns out to be not so different from how Western storytellers would imagine it.
New Arabian Nights
