My Dad is Monkey King (2021) 我的爸爸是齐天大圣
Director: Shen Wei / Yu Zizai
Screenwriter: Yu Zizai
Starring: Li Jiashu / Chen Fei / Tai Yongfeng / Li Delong / Yuan Man
Genre: Animation / Family / Children
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2021-06-19 (Mainland China)
Duration: 94 minutes
Adaptation: Inspiration
Summary:
Li Yiyi is a lonely and rebellious child who worships the Monkey King and fantasizes that he is as powerful as the Monkey King, but in fact he hurts the people around him unintentionally. The sick mother hopes that Yiyi can protect everyone like Monkey King, but Yiyi refuses to protect his father who is on a business trip and neglects his family.
Until one day, the father who hadn’t appeared for a long time came back in another form, and the father told Yiyi that he was actually Sun Wukong, hidden in the world, and would change seventy-two… From then on, every weekend, my father would take on a different appearance Appeared beside Yi Yi. Accompanied and taught by his father, one by one gradually became sensible and warm, and gradually discovered the secret behind “Monkey King”…
Li Yiyi (10 years old)’s father died suddenly in a car accident, and his mother was seriously ill in the hospital. Grandma could take care of Li Yiyi’s daily life, but she couldn’t tell his father the fact of his death. A friend of the father’s before his death came here after hearing the news, and reached a plan to accompany him in the seventy-two transformations of the Monkey King, hoping that Li Yiyi can adapt to the life without his father.
