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Princess Iron Fan (1941)

Princess Iron Fan poster
Original title
铁扇公主
Directed by
Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan
Genre
adventure film
Country
Republic of China
Runtime
1h 13m
Rated
ALL
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A princess teams up with the Monkey King and his companions to retrieve a magical fan needed to put out a great fire. The story comes from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.

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What happens

Princess Iron Fan (traditional Chinese: 鐵扇公主; simplified Chinese: 铁扇公主; pinyin: Tiě shàn gōngzhǔ), is the first full-length Chinese animated feature film. It is also considered the first Asian animated feature film. The film is based on an episode of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West. It was directed in Shanghai under difficult conditions in the thick of World War II by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming (the Wan brothers) and was released on 19 November 1941. The film later became influential in the development of Japanese animation. Its circulation in wartime Japan helped inspire the production of Momotarō's Sea Eagles (1943) and Momotarō's Divine Sea Warriors, and later influenced Osamu Tezuka's creation of Astro Boy (1963). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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