[anim] Princess iron fan (Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan - 1941)

[auess]

Tieshan gongzhu (1941) AKA Princess iron fan

Directed by
Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan

Genre: Animation
Runtime: 73 min
Country: China
Color: Black and White
imdb: None
Reviews:
http://www.fpsmagazine.com/feature/middlekingdom.shtml (in english)
http://venus.unive.it/asiamed/cina/schede/princess.html (in italian)

The Wan brothers, the greatest asian animation pioneers.

When you say Asian animation, the tendency is to look solely towards Japan, and lately, Korea—which is wrong, or at the very least, simplistic. Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan's Princess Iron Fan (1941), a seminal work in Chinese animation, is by some accounts the third animated feature ever made, after Disney's Snow White and the Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels (1939). By others, it's actually the fifth, after Quirino Cristiani's El Apostol (1917) and Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1925). It's about one of the thousand-and-one adventures of the legendary Monkey King, as he escorts a Buddhist priest over mountains and into the West. In this particular episode (call them the earliest ever version of the mini-series), Monkey and his companions face the Mountain of Flames; the only solution is to obtain a fan made of iron from a fairy princess, and use it to blow the flames out. Problem is, the fairy princess remembers Monkey, and is furious at him for past injustices...

Princess Iron Fan is an enormously influential film — it provoked the Japanese military to create their own first-ever animated feature, Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (1945), and inspired a sixteen-year-old Japanese named Ozamu Tezuka (Astro Boy) to take up an animator's pen. It was made under impossibly adverse conditions—in Shanghai while the city was surrounded by Japanese forces, with the animators both constantly short of food and working desperately to solve problems they have never even imagined (to create certain human movements, for example, they resorted to rotoscoping). The film even has its hidden political meaning, with Monkey roundly defeated by the Princess and her Buffalo King (who represents Japan); only when he unites with his fellow companions, Sandy and Piggy, does he defeat king and princess. I found myself admiring it intensely, and if its slapstick doesn't have the precision of the Fleischer cartoons, if its overall storytelling doesn't evoke the kind of enchantment that Reiniger's Prince Achmed does, that's probably more a failure of my own personal taste than the film's, I think.

Taking three years, 237 artists and 350,000 yuan to make, PRINCESS IRON FAN retold part of the popular Chinese folk-tale Journey to the West, specifically the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village. As only the third feature-length cartoon ever to be made (after Disney's SNOW WHITE and the Fleischers' GULLIVER'S TRAVELS), it was a triumph for Asian animation and swiftly exported to wartime Japan. Its influences were far-reaching, inspiring the 16-year-old Tezuka Osamu to become a comics artist, and prompting the Japanese Navy to commission Japan's first feature-length cartoon, MOMOTARO'S DIVINE SEA WARRIORS (1945).

Chinese Animation: Splendid Past, Bitter Present
CHINESE ANIMATION HISTORY

Note: This is not that 1976 93min hongkong color film "Princess iron fan", which already shared on mule. It's rare 1941 animation one. It's the first asian animation, influced a lot of asian animators in a long time. A true classic. BTW, if anyone interested, I also got the Wan brothers abother masterwork upoar in heaven (1945).

My last release for the moment, I'm gonna keep them sharing and take some days to finish english subs for the last 2 fei mu films. OG...it's too hard works...

Wan.Laiming,.Wan.Guchan.-.Tieshan.gongzhu.-.Princess.iron.fan.(1941).first.asian.animation.feature!-(auess).avi


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Subtitulos en ingles cortesia de Pickpocket

Princess Iron Fan.srt

Enlace a descarga directa cortesia de Montagut

http://www.archive.org/details/Princess ... 5_denoised

[pickpocket]

8O 8O Pinchado.

Thanks auess

[Jacob]

Children and women first, pick.

Clicking this, of course.

[Fitzcarraldo]

thanks a lot auess!!!

[el_saturn]

thanks auess!!

[trep]

Thanks again Auess!
I'm on this one too

[psikonauta]

Me lo bajo, muchas gracias auess.

[LauRíSTiCa]

Great release! Dowloading it, too!
Thx auess.

[el_cid_campeador]

O_O
Downloading, of course.
Thanks auess.

[morus]

Great as usual, auess. Thks.

[canaguayo]

At this moment, I'm another auess fan !!!! (Maybe we´ll must create a club soon!!!)
Thanks a lot for this new movie.
The others in progress, but near to finish.
Bye

[Fredersen]

My last release for the moment, I'm gonna keep them sharing and take some days to finish english subs for the last 2 fei mu films. OG...it's too hard works...

Hard work for which we are most grateful. You may find amusing to know that, besides this little community here, your efforts may help in building a new canon for Asian movies among Western critics too. I passed the Lianhua Symphony to a friend in New York (giving credit to you, of course), and he made a copy for Jonathan Rosenbaum, who was very interested in watching anything by the same Fei Mu of Spring in a Small Town (by any chance, is it one of the other two movies you plan to release?). No doubt he'll watch your other releases sooner or later, so maybe this will help to shed light on this obscure films.

[aguijon]

I have no words...
You're my heroe, man

[auess]

Hard work for which we are most grateful. You may find amusing to know that, besides this little community here, your efforts may help in building a new canon for Asian movies among Western critics too. I passed the Lianhua Symphony to a friend in New York (giving credit to you, of course), and he made a copy for Jonathan Rosenbaum, who was very interested in watching anything by the same Fei Mu of Spring in a Small Town (by any chance, is it one of the other two movies you plan to release?). No doubt he'll watch your other releases sooner or later, so maybe this will help to shed light on this obscure films.

I'm very glad Jonathan Rosenbaum can see them, although I haven't got any chance to see his articles, but I know he's a famous film critic. I think the biggest problem of these rediscovered gems' communion between china and western countries is language, you know chinese is one of the most hard-learning language in the world. I'm willing to make their subs by my limited english level , especially for my favor director Fei Mu, at least better than nothing. I just hope my poor translations didn't frighten him.

btw absolutely siast is the film I plan to rip soon.

[etayo]

I'll got it. Thanks.

[Fredersen]

Hard work for which we are most grateful. You may find amusing to know that, besides this little community here, your efforts may help in building a new canon for Asian movies among Western critics too. I passed the Lianhua Symphony to a friend in New York (giving credit to you, of course), and he made a copy for Jonathan Rosenbaum, who was very interested in watching anything by the same Fei Mu of Spring in a Small Town (by any chance, is it one of the other two movies you plan to release?). No doubt he'll watch your other releases sooner or later, so maybe this will help to shed light on this obscure films.

I'm very glad Jonathan Rosenbaum can see them, although I haven't got any chance to see his articles, but I know he's a famous film critic. I think the biggest problem of these rediscovered gems' communion between china and western countries is language, you know chinese is one of the most hard-learning language in the world. I'm willing to make their subs by my limited english level , especially for my favor director Fei Mu, at least better than nothing. I just hope my poor translations didn't frighten him.

Making subs is a very hard task, I'm sure all of us who are into the world of divx know and appreciate the enormous effort of what you're doing. I found that the "Lianhua Symphony" subtitles were more than adequate, I didn't have the impression at all that my enjoyement or understanding of the shorts were limited by the subtitles. I'm sure that Rosenbaum didn't notice that they were amateur, if no one told him.

btw absolutely siast is the film I plan to rip soon.

Great!

[DavidM]

This is brilliant.





DavidM

[pickpocket]

Subtítulos en inglés:

Princess Iron Fan.srt

[canaguayo]

.... y en breve, en español.

[pickpocket]

.... y en breve, en español.

No puedo si no pelotear :plas::plas: