Fantasia XXVI Review: DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS, Fantastic Wuxia Entertainment For A Different Medium
Chinese opera a la glove puppetry (a.k.a. “budaixi”) is nothing new if you’ve been exposed to this kind of entertainment in the last forty years or so. I’m a Westerner, so obviously when I caught wind of Thunderbolt Fantasy over on Crunchyroll, I was amazed at what I saw, which provides what little background knowledge I have to collect on the art, to which I now get to add Chris Huang Wen-Chang’s latest endevaor, Demigod: The Legend Begins. The film is a family effort out of Huang’s Pili International Multimedia and Puppetmotion Entertainment label with Huang Liang Hsun producing, as well as serving as screenwriter alongside He Yuan Yu, and featuring the work of late legendary puppeteer, Vincent Huang. For this, fans are invited to the story of Su-Huan Jen, who, upon embarking on a climb up one of the five mountains of Wulin, accidently interfering in a battle between […]