Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King

Here is a link to the you tube that contains this movie, the English version, it also contains the Mandarin version without subs (but original score). I used to watch this as a child too, when I was 5 or 6 (1995/6) but lost my copy.

It's a long forgotten gem, the plot (i think is an old Chinese fable) and the music score is fantastic. I don't think it is still produced for the UK market, however, I did hear of a 25th anniversary edition DVD being released in China.

Hope that helps a little.

Laurence

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Kty_rVj1Va8&mode=related&search=

My family (wife, young boy and girl) saw this on BBC TV one Christmas, (maybe 1990? - they'd have been 6 and 5 then) and videoed it. It has since become a staunch family favourite. Graphically superb and totally psychedelic, it is also one of the most spiritually moving and profound things I have ever seen. Good versus evil, in the form of a child with spirit guides, versus nasty dragons. Some of the lines are fantastic, too: "Now we can grow even more wicked - let's create some new diseases" - (just like they do at Porton Down in Wiltshire.

But that raises an interesting point - I've only ever seen it on sale with a Mandarin sound track, and English sub-titles - but the broadcast version was in English with no sub-titles. Anyone know anything about that? An absolute must-see for anyone with any sort of taste at all.

I saw this ages ago when i was a kid. The animation was great and so was the story .. based on some old Chinese legend i think; a boy prince battling 5 tyrant dragons that plague the land. I only have vague memories of the movie but i recall i enjoyed it a lot. Several searches for a DVD version have yielded nothing :/

The English title is "Little Nezha" (Nai-ya), it tells the story of an emperor's wife laying an egg instead of giving birth, the emperor is outraged, however before he cuts the egg with his sword in anger, his son is born from the egg and givin special powers from a wise old man (Tai-yee) to battle the 5 dragon kings terrorising china.

This is superb traditional Chinese animation, the dubbing isn't amazing (what dubs are??), but acceptable. Kids and adults will enjoy this, though there is some shocking scenes, though I didn't mind them at all when I was a kid. The music alone is amazing, very atmospheric and memorable. Find this on VHS on ebay, I did!! You wont regret it.

Like many of the reviewers I thoroughly enjoy this odd Chinese animation. It is well animated and the sound track is particularly enjoyable. I watched this animation numerous times throughout my childhood without recoiling at any of the 'shocking' scenes nor considering it particularly 'disturbing'. That being said, I remember when I first went to University I showed the animation to a few friends and they found the animation to be very disturbing for an animation that children would have watched.

Given this, I would recommend any parent watches Nezha before allowing their kids to watch it. If you were okay with uncensored Dragonball and other Japanese animes then Nezha should be no problem.

I would thoroughly recommend it though - very enjoyable film, and highly memorable.