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More than three years in the making, and easily the most ambitious cinematic rendition yet of wu chengens 16thcentury chinese epic journey to the west, the monkey king in 3d. Production began in beijing on 18 october 2010 and was filmed in 3d. Monkey king film would bring chinese fable to america. With aaron kwok, shaofeng feng, zanilia zhao, shenyang xiao. This first movie in a proposed trilogy that tells the origin story of the monkey king, beginning with the birth of sun wukong and ending. Sep 04, 2015 in 2008, jackie chan and jet li starred in the forbidden kingdom, an action film that put a band of martial arts warriors on a mission to free the monkey king. In the monkey king 3d, a massive sense of spectacle overwhelms a somewhat simplistic take on the mystical tale of simian spirit sun wukong, but what an impressive display it proves to be in the. The plot is based on an episode of journey to the west, a chinese literary. See more ideas about monkey king, journey to the west and art. The monkey king 3d official trailer 20 donnie yen hd.
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