- Lotus Lantern
Infobox Film
name = Lotus Lantern
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director =Guang Xi Chang
producer =Chongqing Sheng
writer =Dawei Wang
starring =Wen Jiang Fan Xu Jing Ning Peisi Chen
music =Fuzai Jin
editing =Liming Gong
distributor =
released =1999
runtime = 94 min
rating =
country =China
awards =
language = Mandarin
budget = 21 million RMB (about US $2.6 million)
gross =
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imdb_id = 0262264Lotus Lantern (zh-sp|s=宝莲灯|p=Băo lián dēng) is a Chinese animated
feature film produced byShanghai Animation Film Studio .Plot
The story is based on the traditional Chinese folklore about a boy named Chenxiang. His mother is a goddess and his father is a mortal. His uncle
Erlang Shen , punishes them by killing the father. The mother escapes and gives birth, but the little boy grows up without knowledge of his ancestry. His mother possesses a magical Lotus Lantern whose light can scare away evil. When his uncle, a strict and powerful god, kidnaps Chenxiang, his mother fights to save her son.Unfortunately, his uncle is victorious and Chenxiang is forced to live in his palace on the sacred mountains. Erlang Shen then imprisons his sister beneath a mountain for her crimes. Although he is quite young, Chenxiang manages to escape from the palace, taking the magical lotus lantern that his mother lost during the battle.
After surviving adventures with many beloved characters of Chinese mythology, Chenxiang finally matures into a courageous boy who must battle his uncle to win his mother's freedom and fall in love at the same time.
Background
The production took four years and required over 150,000 animation
cel s and over 2,000 painted backgrounds. It was the most popular film inChina in 1999. Fact|date=April 2008DVD
Released in 2004, it contains English- and Japanese-language soundtracks along with the original Mandarin dialogue.
References
* [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/03/content_656694.htm China Daily]
ee also
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List of animated feature films External links
* [http://www.ani-sh.com/ Official Site of "Shanghai Animation Film Studio"]
*imdb title|id=0262264|title=Lotus Lantern
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