Mountain of Flames (1958) 火焰山
Director: Jin Xi / You Lei
Screenwriter: Wu Lun / Liang Yanjing
Genre: Animation / Short / Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Duration: 28 minutes
Also known as: Fiery Mountain / Flame Mountain
Adaptation: Retelling
Summary:
It is said that on this day, the Tang monk, master and his apprentices went through thousands of mountains and rivers, and came to a place called Flame Mountain. The flames here stretched for hundreds of miles, blocking the road to the west. It turned out that Sun Wukong made a disturbance in the Heavenly Palace five hundred years ago and knocked over the alchemy furnace of the Supreme Lord Laozi. The true fire of samadhi descended from the sky, accomplishing another tribulation on the path of learning the scriptures. Tang Seng is frowning, Zhu Bajie retreats before the battle, and Monkey King plans to ask the wife of the Bull Demon King to extinguish the fire with a plantain fan.
However, when Sun Wukong subdued Red Boy, he had already formed a relationship with his sworn brothers and husband and wife. Princess Iron Fan, who is eager to love her son, hated him deeply and fanned him to the little Sumeru fifty thousand miles away with a fan. After two or three fights, Wukong finally borrowed the precious fan, but unexpectedly he borrowed a fake one. In desperation, Wukong asked the Bull Demon King for help, but… This film is adapted from the 59th to 61st chapters of the Chinese classical mythological novel “Journey to the West”.
