Check it out, Chinese Animation

[dragonbeak]

Two little Chinese movies that I was able to find on the internet, after having seen them last over about maybe ten years at least on VHS in China. I didn't understand any of the story half the time since back then I didn't watch it subtitled and didn't know Chinese. Now I still don't know Chinese but hey, there are subtitles!

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You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Anyway....

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[sammie224466]

Well, the trip to China is an family trip, right? And maybe you would have an chance to see the terra cotta soldiers in the first emperors tomb. And I'm noot too picky about fanfiction, so I would most likely read whatever you write. And most Americans are mutts anyway. Like I'm 1/8 German, 1/8 Irish, have some native american blood, some french, some Englis, and I think Welsh and Scottish too. And, basically, in an technicality, the onyl truly natural born Americans are the Native Americans since they lived here for millenia.

[dragonbeak]

Yeah it would be, we'd be staying most in one city though, so I don't know if I could go and see those things ^^; but! It'd be a lot about China nonetheless, and not so touristy, yay.

And uh... I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to read this xD;;;

[sammie224466]

Ahh, oh well. And learning about your heritage can be good. But at last your dad is willing ot let you take an minor in your school!

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[dragonbeak]

I don't know if it was the same one, but I did see an short animation in an ink painting kind of style involving tadpoles looking for their mother? And a bunch of stop motion types with paper cutouts, or all sorts of stuff.

Yeah, I find a lot of these older Chinese animations to be more impressive than Japanese animation too xD;;; Though, that's mostly because Japan relied/relies on limited animation a lot. Chinese studios seemed to be a little more experimental, but then they focused mostly on shorts, and I don't really know what's going on over there now >o>;;

Yeah, guess my dad counts as one of those older people ^^; or rather, he's from the generation right after all that stuff happened? Me thinks...

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[elf_chuchu]

OMG! NEZHA!!!! THAT'S LIKE MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD FILM EVER! (along with the last unicorn and totoro) We still have that (chinese with chinese subs |D; ) Oh yes!! We have that tape too! The one with the tadpoles. There was another story short with a boy and his ox, three monks, another boy who poses as a deer and gets shot and saved with magical tears, and Did you see the one with FireChild? The boy who swallows fire and is like SO INCREDIBLY sad? (yeah i'm just totally flipping out over these xD I LOVE them)

I don't even know if chinese really do animation like they used to anymore >.>;....

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[dragonbeak]

Aw man, I don't really remember a lot of them, there's a lot of blur in my head ^^;

Well, I do vaguely remember one about a porcupine and a watermelon.

[yukiro_osaki]

The Last unicorn is definately one of my childhood films. First time seeing these ones but I have to say Nezha was interesting but why is it I see a lot of buddhist imagery mixed with Indian and China's version of Japan's peach boy?...then again maybe things overlap.Still really good detail for the time period, actually, even now.

[dragonbeak]

I've never seen The Last Unicorn! It's on my to-do list... yes...

[dragonbeak]

Oh, oh, did you ever see the live action Journey to the West? That one was pretty fantastic too xD;;;

And wow, what a strange thing to happen in bootlegs >>; but I guess it happens.