Legend of Sealed Book is a Chinese animated

Chinese animation

Chinese animation or Manhua Anime, in narrow sense, refers to animations that are made in China. In broad sense, it may refers to animations that are made in any Chinese speaking countries such as People's Republic of China , Republic of China , Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, etc.- History :The...

 feature film

Feature film

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 produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio

Shanghai Animation Film Studio

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. It is also referred to as "Book Which Came from the Sky", "Tales about the Heavenly Book" and "Secrets of the Heavenly Book".

Background

The film was produced with rigorous dubbing, fluid combination of music and vivid animations. The story is based on the classic literature Ping Yao Zhuan (平妖传) meaning "The Suppression of the Demons" authored by Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong was a Chinese vernacular writer and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou, now Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China....

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Story

Yuangong, the deacon, opened the shrine and exposed the holy book to the human world. He also carved the contents of the book on the stone wall of white cloud cave in the mountains. He is now punished to guard the book for life by the jade emperor for breaking heaven's law and betraying the holy secret to human. In order to pass this holy book to human beings, he would have to get by the antagonist fox.

DVD

The movie was republished on two disc DVDs. The first disk contains the movie, the second contain other work from the director Wang Shuchen.

External links

• The film at China's Movie Database