english title | A Chinese Tall Story |
original title | 情癲大聖 |
aka | A Journey West |
year | 2005 |
country | Hong-Kong |
director | Jeff LAU Chun-Wai - 劉鎮瑋 | |
actor | FAN Bing Bing | |
Mondi YAU Yuet Ching | Alternate face of Buddha | |
GC Goo-Bi | ||
Steven CHEUNG Chi-Hung | ||
Wilson CHEN Bo-Lin - 陳柏霖 | ||
Charlene CHOI Cheuk-Yin - 蔡卓研 | ||
Nicholas TSE Ting-Fung - 謝霆鋒 | ||
producer | Albert LEE Nga Bok | |
composer | HISAISHI Joe - 久石譲 | |
scriptwriter | Jeff LAU Chun-Wai - 劉鎮瑋 | |
artistic director | Eric LAM | |
costumes | William CHANG Suk Ping |
genres | comedy fantasy period |
production studio | EMG |
A Journey West tells a little-known tale about the Tang Monk, Tripitaka, before he embarks on his arduous journey to bring the sacred sutras from the west, and achieves deification after successfully negotiating Eight-One Tasks to prove his faith and resolve. As we see him for the first time, the Tang Monk is leading his three disciples into the city of Shache. No one would know that it is here that the boyishly innocent Tripitaka will meet his greatest challenge