In Takana Shirai’s directorial debut a young girl must travel about 500 miles on foot in order to feed some gods.
Category: Fantasy
The Monkey Goes West
Our heroes sing and dance their way to the West in the first of Ho Meng-hua’s Journey series.
Alakazam the Great
Excellent animation clashes with a ludicrous localisation to make an unforgettable Journey to the West-ish adaptation.
Wu Kong
Needlessly serious, this reimagining of Sun Wukong's origin isn't what I would call good, but it's a blast to watch nonetheless.
Twins Effect 2
Boys rule, girls drool in Corey Yuen and Patrick Leung’s aged-like-milk fantasy.
Dynasty Warriors
History has never before taken such a walloping than in Roy Chow's video game adaptation.
Super Me
Despite its exciting premise, the stakes have never been lower in Zhang Chong’s strange psycho-fantasy.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Director Fumihiko Sori enters the Gate of Truth and shows us that transforming animation to live action can be just as horrific and dangerous as human transmutation.
Homunculus
It surely shouldn’t take a fantasy psychodrama to learn that bad things happen when you drill holes in people’s heads.
New Gods: Nezha Reborn
The gods take their endless battle to the streets of a sci-fi China in Zhao Ji’s action fantasy.
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
A young soldier finds himself in way over his head in this adaptation of Huanzhulouzhu’s fantasy novel.
Monkey King and the City of Demons
Sha Wujing isn’t even the main villain of his own chapter in the first of a new Journey to the West film series.