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Japanese monk Kukai (Sometani Shota) travels across the seas to Tang China's dazzling capital city of Chang'an. He is summoned to the palace to exorcise a demon that has been troubling the Emperor (Zhang Luyi), but by the time he arrives, it is already too late. In the Emperor's chamber, Kukai curiously discovers cat hair. Unsure of how to correctly document the Emperor's unusual passing, palace scribe and poet Bai Letian (Huang Xuan) teams up with Kukai to investigate various strange incidents orchestrated by a dangerous black cat demon. As Kukai and Bai run around town uncovering secrets, they gradually trace the mystery back to the tragic story of late concubine Yang Guifei (Sandrine Pinna), who is the muse of Bai's magnum opus.
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Product Title: | Legend of the Demon Cat (2017) (Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) 妖貓傳 (2017) (Blu-ray) (香港版) 妖猫传 (2017) (Blu-ray) (香港版) Legend of the Demon Cat (2017) (Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) Legend of the Demon Cat (2017) (Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) |
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Artist Name(s): | Huang Xuan (Actor) | Sometani Shota (Actor) | Abe Hiroshi (Actor) | Kitty Zhang (Actor) | Sandrine Pinna (Actor) | Liu Hao Ran (Actor) | Lui Pei Qi (Actor) | Matsuzaka Keiko (Actor) | Xin Bo Qing (Actor) | Hino Shohei (Actor) | Cheng Tai Shen (Actor) | Zhang Lu Yi (Actor) | Qin Hao (Actor) | Tian Yu (Actor) | Mason Lee (Actor) | Qin Yi (Actor) | Oho Ou (Actor) | Crystal Zhang (Actor) 黃 軒 (Actor) | 染谷將太 (Actor) | 阿部寬 (Actor) | 張 雨綺 (Actor) | 張 榕容 (Actor) | 劉 昊然 (Actor) | 劉佩琦 (Actor) | 松坂慶子 (Actor) | 辛柏青 (Actor) | 火野正平 (Actor) | 成泰燊 (Actor) | 張魯一 (Actor) | 秦昊 (Actor) | 田雨 (Actor) | 李淳 (Actor) | 秦怡 (Actor) | 歐 豪 (Actor) | 張天愛 (Actor) 黄 轩 (Actor) | 染谷将太 (Actor) | 阿部宽 (Actor) | 张 雨绮 (Actor) | 张 榕容 (Actor) | 刘 昊然 (Actor) | 刘佩琦 (Actor) | 松坂庆子 (Actor) | Xin Bo Qing (Actor) | 火野正平 (Actor) | 成泰燊 (Actor) | 张鲁一 (Actor) | 秦昊 (Actor) | 田雨 (Actor) | 李淳 (Actor) | 秦怡 (Actor) | 欧 豪 (Actor) | 张天爱 (Actor) 黃軒(ホアン・シュアン) (Actor) | 染谷将太 (Actor) | 阿部寛 (Actor) | 張雨綺 (キティ・チャン) (Actor) | 張榕容 (チャン・ロンロン/サンドリーナ・ピンナ) (Actor) | 劉昊然(リウ・ハオラン) (Actor) | リウ・ペイチー (Actor) | マツザカケイコ (Actor) | 辛柏青(シン・バイチン) (Actor) | 火野正平 (Actor) | 成泰燊 (チェン・タイシェン) (Actor) | Zhang Lu Yi (Actor) | 秦昊(チン・ハオ) (Actor) | Tian Yu (Actor) | 李淳(メイソン・リー) (Actor) | Qin Yi (Actor) | 歐豪(オウ・ハオ) (Actor) | チャン・ティエンアイ[張天愛] (Actor) Huang Xuan (Actor) | Sometani Shota (Actor) | Abe Hiroshi (Actor) | Kitty Zhang (Actor) | Sandrine Pinna (Actor) | Liu Hao Ran (Actor) | Lui Pei Qi (Actor) | Matsuzaka Keiko (Actor) | Xin Bo Qing (Actor) | Hino Shohei (Actor) | Cheng Tai Shen (Actor) | Zhang Lu Yi (Actor) | Qin Hao (Actor) | Tian Yu (Actor) | Mason Lee (Actor) | Qin Yi (Actor) | Oho Ou (Actor) | Crystal Zhang (Actor) |
Director: | Chen Kaige 陳凱歌 陈凯歌 陳凱歌 (チェン・カイコー) Chen Kaige |
Writer: | Chen Kaige | Wang Hui Ling 陳凱歌 | 王蕙玲 陈凯歌 | 王蕙玲 陳凱歌 (チェン・カイコー) | Wang Hui Ling Chen Kaige | Wang Hui Ling |
Blu-ray Region Code: | A - Americas (North, Central and South except French Guiana), Korea, Japan, South East Asia (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) What is it? |
Release Date: | 2018-04-27 |
Language: | Mandarin, Original Soundtrack |
Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
Place of Origin: | China, Japan |
Picture Format: | [HD] High Definition What is it? |
Aspect Ratio: | Widescreen |
Disc Format(s): | Blu-ray |
Screen Resolution: | 1080p (1920 x 1080 progressive scan) |
Rating: | IIA |
Duration: | 129 (mins) |
Publisher: | Panorama (HK) |
Package Weight: | 100 (g) |
Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1066054451 |
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Legend of the Demon Cat is adapted from “Shamon Kuukai Tou no Kuni nite One to Utage-su”, a novel written by the famous Japanese writer Yumemakura Baku. It tells a story in Tang Dynasty (Around 850 AD) about a Chinese poet and a Japanese monk investigating into the mysterious death of Concubine Yang, the most beautiful Concubine in Chinese history, following the lead of several strange events made by a demon cat.
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How far can movie magic get you? Quite far in the case of Chen Kaige's splendidly strange fantasy mystery Legend of the Demon Cat.
Based on a novel series by Japanese sci-fi/fantasy writer Yumemakura Baku, Legend of Demon Cat has the kind of story that one would be hard-pressed to explain out loud without sounding a bit silly. A bemused young monk (Sometani Shota) from Japan arrives in Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty China, to exorcise demons for Emperor Xuanzong (Zhang Luyi), who dies mysteriously. He befriends the palace scribe, a moody poet (Huang Xuan) who swings between being super excited and dramatically devastated about his poem-in-progress, and the two investigate the strange circumstances behind the Emperor's death. Namely, there's a murderous black cat on the loose. The vengeful cat demon slays, possesses and generally skulks around menacingly, while the monk and the poet run around meeting persons of interest to uncover the puzzle behind the cat's killing spree. The story winds back to the tragic life and death of the late Emperor's famously beautiful consort Yang Guifei (Sandrine Pinna). Besides a black cat up to no good, the film also spins out characters like an illusionist who conjures melons and boys who turn into cranes. As a mystery, Legend of the Demon Cat is undeniably intriguing for its supernatural elements and reinterpretation of the history surrounding Yang Guifei's death and Bai Juyi's famous poem "Song of Everlasting Regret" about her. This curious mystery fusing history, fantasy and poetry, however, is essentially solved in the most expository of manners. Monk Kukai and poet Bai stroll briskly from place to place and hear or read accounts that fill in the blanks of the past. And eventually the cat reveals the whole story. While you're viewing Legend of the Demon Cat though, you're unlikely to notice how simplistic the narrative flow is because the film's dressing and details are simply so magically mystifying and visually captivating. The otherworldly awe of mind-bending illusions and the decadent splendor of the Tang Dynasty at its pinnacle are magnificently realized onscreen in majestic sets, gorgeous costumes and eye-popping special effects. The film's colorful kaleidoscope vision of the Emperor's glorious banquet for Yang Guifei alone is worth the price of admission. To use Kukai's words, this is the romance of the Great Tang. Legend of the Demon Cat effectively overwhelms the senses with a romanticized vision of the Tang Dynasty during its golden age of art, literature and cosmopolitan culture – a spellbinding time and place for idealistic poets, tragic lovers, wise thinkers and hopeless romantics. Thanks to this stunningly beautiful and bewildering spectacle of visual effects and kooky imagery used correctly, I can finally forgive Chen Kaige for The Promise. |
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July 19, 2021
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Farewell my demon cat
The sumptuously-mounted 'Legend of the Demon Cat' has a major problem at its heart.
Director Chen Kaige's overlong, overly complex, overly serious film essentially is a tale of all the men who are head over heels in love with Lady Yang Guifei (Sandrine Pinna), regarded as one of the four great beauties of ancient China. The problem (perhaps it is two problems) is that the half-French Pinna doesn't look particularly Chinese and her character is a blank slate. She looks out of place and one can't quite imagine why all these men are so impassioned by her, nor can the viewer be particularly moved by this cipher's fate. (I wish Kitty Zhang had been cast in this role instead of the lesser role she was given. Ms. Zhang surely would have found a way to make Lady Yang more appealing.) The film is loaded with CGI special effects, which are wildly inconsistent in their persuasiveness. The character which drives the film's action, the CGI-generated demon cat of the title, in particular seems at times almost cartoonish. Perhaps the film would have worked better if they had played it for laughs. |
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September 26, 2020
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