A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
Why this pick
Its companion film shares the playful anachronisms, romantic melancholy, rapid-fire absurdity and reinvented Journey to the West mythology that make Part Two so distinctive.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its companion film shares the playful anachronisms, romantic melancholy, rapid-fire absurdity and reinvented Journey to the West mythology that make Part Two so distinctive.
Why this pick
Jeffrey Lau brings the same gleefully theatrical comic energy, lavish period-fantasy styling and buoyant romantic mischief, though in a new historical-farce setting.
Why this pick
Stephen Chow’s cartoonishly inventive martial-arts comedy similarly turns genre mythology into visual gags, sudden sentiment and exhilarating, larger-than-life fantasy action.
Why this pick
Jeffrey Lau applies delirious ensemble farce to martial-arts archetypes, with pop-culture anachronism, comic chaos and stars playing heightened versions of heroic fantasy figures.
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01 / THE STORY
The convoluted continuation of the adventures of the time-traveling, now-human Monkey King, who attempts to fulfill his divine destiny.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Purple / Lin Zixia

Iron Fan Princess / Lin Qing Xia

Chi Juen Bo / Joker / Monkey King