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28-466: A Chinese Odyssey is a two-part 1995 Hong Kong fantasy-comedy film directed by Jeffrey Lau and starring Stephen Chow . The first part is titled A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box , while the second part is titled A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella . The film is very loosely based on the 16th-century Wu Cheng'en novel Journey to the West . A third film, A Chinese Odyssey Part Three ,

56-516: A Wind-Calming Pill from the immortal, Huaguang successfully captured Princess Iron Fan and married her. Due to the story of their marriage, Princess Iron Fan is worshipped alongside Huaguang Dadi in the Huaguang Great Emperor Temple  [ zh ] in Fu'ao Village  [ zh ] , Nangan Township . Her origins are unclear, but some legends depicted her as a Taoist goddess and

84-450: A child with Spider Woman. Joker finds Bak Jing-jing and tries to save her by travelling back in time with the aid of Pandora's Box, but each time he arrives a few seconds too late to stop her from committing suicide. He finally manages to make it on time to prevent Bak Jing-jing from slitting her throat, but she sacrifices herself to save him from Bull King. Joker travels back in time again, but ends up going back in time by 500 years. Outside

112-433: A fake fan which intensified the flames instead of putting them out. Having barely escaped from the fire, Sun Wukong returned, pretending to be her husband through shape shifting and obtained the real fan. Soon afterwards, the real husband came home; angry at what had happened, he pretended to be Zhu Bajie also through shape shifting and offered to carry the big fan. Lost in the moment of victory, Sun Wukong carelessly believed

140-471: A long and passionate kiss before leaving Joker's body. Joker recovers and is surprised to see himself locked in an embrace with Zixia, but accepts and continues the romance with her. They notice Monkey walking away in the crowd below and laugh at his appearance. Monkey does not turn back until outside the gates where he gave a final glance at the embracing couple and continues on the journey to the west with his companions. The first part grossed HK$ 25,093,380 and

168-413: A promise to marry the person who can unsheathe her sword. Zixia and Longevity Monk are captured by Bull King, who wants to take Zixia as his concubine and feast on Longevity Monk's flesh to become immortal. Pigsy and Sandy try to rescue their master but he refuses to leave unless Joker promises to fulfil his destiny. Joker goes off in search of Zixia and rescues her, after which they flee from Bull King. In

196-450: A result, his circlet tightens and causes him to feel extreme agony. In anger, he beats up Bull King before escaping together with his master, Pigsy and Sandy by using Pandora's Box. Monkey wakes up later and finds himself in a cave, but with his master and fellows this time. Outside the cave, in a busy city, Monkey sees the incarnations of Joker and Zixia in a standoff on top of a wall. He uses his powers to possess Joker's body and gave Zixia

224-608: A second chance after Longevity Monk pleaded for leniency and sacrificed himself. Joker is the chief of a group of outlaws. Joker and his gang are attacked by two demons, Spider Woman and Bak Jing-jing , who threaten and force them to search nearby travelers for 3 dots on their feet, an indication of Monkey. Joker's second-in-command (a reincarnation of Pigsy ) overhears the demons' plan to capture Longevity Monk and feast on his flesh to gain immortality, prompting Spider Woman to force him into servitude. Joker subsequently falls in love with Bak Jing-jing. Grandpa Buddha informs Joker about

252-446: A time portal when moonlight shines on it and when " Prajñāpāramitā " is chanted. He also overhears Guanyin's voice, telling him that he was actually Monkey in his past life and is destined to continue his quest to escort his master on the journey to the west. Meanwhile, Bull King and Bak Jing-jing enter the cave and fight with Spider Woman. Bak Jing-jing commits suicide after mistakenly believing that Joker has betrayed her love and fathered

280-532: Is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, actor and producer. Lau is famous for writing and directing " mo lei tau " comedies. His comedies include A Chinese Odyssey (with Stephen Chow ) and Chinese Odyssey 2002 , the latter which was voted Best 2002 Film by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society . This article about a Hong Kong film director is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Princess Iron Fan In Journey to

308-675: Is a beautiful demoness, married to the Bull Demon King and mother to the Red Boy. She was living in " Palmleaf Cave/ Grotto " (棕櫚葉洞; Zōnglǘyèdòng ), up on "Jade Cloud Mountain" (玉雲山; Yùyúnshān (or "Emerald Cloud Mountain" (翠云山; Cuìyúnshān ))), awaiting her husband's return, but was also angry at him for his affair with a fox-spirit woman , Princess Jade Face . The Bull Demon King described his wife as an "immortal female with excellence in spiritual practice (female Xian )" and that she had "practiced self-cultivation since her youth". She possessed

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336-515: Is a finest leaf of the "supreme yin ", and that is why it can extinguish all fires, including the fires on the Flaming Mountains (the volcano that was created inadvertently by Wukong when he burst out of the aforementioned Laozi's Eight Trigrams Crucible / Brazier 500 years earlier). The palm-leaf fan is also described as being able to create giant whirlwinds; if a man is bodily fanned by it, he will "drift for eighty-four thousand miles before

364-417: Is not Joker and pretends to scorn her. Monkey and Bull King engage in battle. When Bull King realises he is losing, he uses Princess Iron Fan 's magic fan to churn up strong winds that will blow the entire city towards the sun and kill everyone in the process. Monkey succeeds in stopping Bull King and saves everyone, but Zixia sacrifices herself to save him. As she dies, Monkey reveals his love for her and, as

392-613: The Bull King and handed over the fan. Later, the Jade Emperor sent his heavenly troops to help Sun Wukong defeat Bull Demon King and Princess Iron Fan for good, and she was forced to give them the real fan. After using the fan to extinguish the fire on the Flaming Mountain, Sun Wukong forgave the princess and returned the fan to her. The princess continued her spiritual practice, and eventually achieved success. According to Journey to

420-655: The South  [ zh ] , Princess Iron Fan is depicted as a goddess. She is the daughter of Yuhuan Shengmu and has a younger brother named Shan Cheng. When Huaguang Dadi (the protagonist of Journey to the South ) stole the Golden Pagoda from her mother, Princess Iron Fan disguised herself and carried her iron fan, long spear, and sharp knife to seek revenge. In their first battle, the princess defeated Huaguang. Later, Huaguang coincidentally encountered an immortal who revealed his connection with Princess Iron Fan. After obtaining

448-581: The West , Princess Iron Fan she made the villagers living near Flaming Mountains yield to her and offer her tribute like a goddess. She is also addressed as Rākṣasī ( 羅剎 女; Luóchànǚ ). The statues of the Princess Iron Fan and Bull Demon King have been established at the Flaming Mountains Scenic Area in Xinjiang and have become a popular tourist destination. Princess Iron Fan

476-515: The ancestor of the wind gods who was entrusted by the heavenly court, and all the wind gods were under her jurisdiction. She is said to be the mentor of Meng Po , the goddess of forgetfulness. In Yuan zaju tradition, she is the sister of Lishan Laomu (Old Mother of the Li Mountain) and was originally a friend of the Queen Mother of the West , Pilanpo and belonged to Taoism. She once had

504-416: The cave while Spider Woman is impregnated with Pigsy's child by accident. As Bak Jing-jing has been poisoned by Spider Woman, Joker goes back to the cave to ask for the antidote, but is imprisoned by Spider Woman. In the meantime, outside the cave, Bak Jing-jing is captured by Bull King, who cures her of the poison in exchange for revenge on Monkey. Inside the cave, Joker finds Pandora's Box, which can open up

532-580: The cave, he encounters a fairy, Zixia, who confiscates Pandora's Box and sears three dots on the sole of his foot to mark him as her servant. This finishes Monkey's reincarnation. After travelling back in time, Joker learns more about his past life and reunites with his master, Longevity Monk, and his fellows, Pigsy and Sandy. However, he does not want to accept his fate as Monkey because he just wants to get back Pandora's Box and return to 500 years later to save Bak Jing-jing. Zixia falls in love with him after he pulls out her sword from its scabbard because she made

560-580: The cold wind subsides", and they're the subject of gravity again. The only know thing immune to the fan's winds is a 'Wind-Arresting elixir' (定风珠/定风丹; Dìngfēngzhū / Dìngfēngdān ), a bead of which was loaned to Sun Wukong from the Boddhisatva , Lingji, who had originally gotten it from Tathāgata Buddha. Beside the Banana Leaf Fan, Princess Iron Fan also wields a pair of blue-bladed treasure swords. Princess Iron Fan used this ability to extort favours from

588-431: The danger he is in, gives him a magic mirror which can reveal a being's true form, and claims to the suspicious demons that Joker is a reincarnation of Monkey to give them time to escape. The group are attacked by Bull King, who is also after Longevity Monk. Joker and Pigsy flee with Bak Jing-jing and Spider Woman to Waterfall Cave, where the two demons starts fighting over Joker. Bak Jing-jing and Joker eventually flee from

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616-488: The ensuing fight between Joker and his companions against Bull King, Joker falls off a cliff and finds himself back in Waterfall Cave, where he meets Grandpa Buddha and Bak Jing-jing. Bak Jing-jing agrees to marry Joker initially, but she leaves later and tells him to save Zixia because she knows he's actually in love with someone else. Shortly after, Spider Woman comes to Waterfall Cave and kills everyone, including Joker. At

644-468: The magical-treasure, the Banana Leaf Fan (香蕉叶扇; Xiāngjiāoyèshàn ). The fan, made from banana leaves (not dissimilar to the Palm Leaf Fan (芭蕉扇; Bājiāoshàn ), one of 5 sacred treasures of Daode Tianzun /Laozi), is extremely large and has magical properties; the novel describes the palm-leaf fan a spiritual treasure 'begotten' of Heaven and Earth at the back of Mount Kunlun at the time when chaos divided. It

672-422: The monkey had been on bad terms with her husband before, which was further soured when Wukong assisted Guanyin in subduing his son Red Boy . Sun Wukong, however, craftily transformed into a fly and flew into her mouth, down her throat, and into her soft belly. Once inside, Sun Wukong kicked and punched Princess Iron Fan's guts until she was in so much pain that she gave him a fan. However, the fan turned out to be

700-488: The point of death, Joker realises the one he truly loves is Zixia. Joker, as a ghost, hears Guanyin's voice inside the cave again, reminding him about his destiny. He decides to accept his fate and puts on the golden circlet, therefore transforming into Monkey. He returns to the world and rushes to Bull King's city to save his master and stop Bull King's wedding ceremony with Zixia. As he is now Monkey, he must relinquish all his human desires, including love, so he tells Zixia he

728-422: The residents near the mountains: by fanning only once each time, the fire would only be extinguished for a year before starting again. When Sun Wukong and his fellow pilgrims came to the region, they encountered an extremely hostile range of volcanic mountains that they could only pass if the volcanoes became inactive. Sun Wukong wanted to borrow her fan to subdue the Flaming Mountains, but she turned him down as

756-605: The second HK$ 20,872,117 in Hong Kong. The second part has grossed CN¥189.202 million on its 2017 release in mainland China. The Austin Chronicle gave Part Two a positive review saying that "if you missed the original film - forget it, you'll never understand what's happening in this picture, but if you saw and enjoyed the first part, you'll no doubt have a great time with this terrific follow-up". Jeffrey Lau Jeffrey Lau Chun-Wai ( Chinese : 劉鎮偉 ; born 5 February 1955)

784-553: Was released in China on 14 September 2016. The line "10,000 years" in the film became one of the most popular buzzwords for Chinese-language films, with a Google search count of 21.9 million. 500 years ago, during their journey to the west to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, Monkey got annoyed with the constant nagging of his master, Longevity Monk , and decided to betray him. He was intercepted and subdued by Guanyin , who decided to give him

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