The Monkey King (2014)
"Xi you ji: Da nao tian gong" (original title)
M 90 min - Action | Adventure | Family - 30 January 2014 (Hong Kong)

Spectacular story of a Buddhist monk's pilgrimage to India to collect religious texts. Absolutely BRILLIANT movie, usa movie critic's cannot admit how good it is (You know what they're like). See it in Full High Definition 3D if you ever get a chance. The visuals are INCREDIBLE.

Consumer Advice: Fantasy violence
Director: Soi Cheang
Main Cast: Donnie Yen, Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Kelly Chen, Gigi Leung, Zilin Zhang, Peter Ho, Joe Chen, Xia Zi Tong, Liu Hau, Hai Yi Tian, Eddie Cheung, Li Ching, Carlson Cheng, Him Law, Irene Wang, Cathy Leung
Genre Action, Asian Cinema, Fantasy
Running Time120 MIN
Release Date30 January 2014


Synopsis
Mandarin with English subtitles.

Taking you back to the Celestial Palace in Chinese New Year 2014.

An ultimate Chinese language adventure tale is crossing over with the best Hollywood Special Effects. An evolutionary Chinese film to a new height.

The production cost of “The Monkey King” has cost $600,000,000 Hong Kong dollars to create a 3D mythological Monkey King, combining Major Asia Stars including Donnie Yen, Chow Yun Fat, Aaron Kwok, Peter Ho, Hai Yi Tian, Xia Zi Tong, Joe Chen, Kelly Chen, Gigi Leung, Zilin Zhang, Calvin Cheng, Liu Hau, Eddie Cheung, Li Ching and Irene Wang. The production team was served by Hollywood Visual Effects talents include David Ebner (Alice in the wonderland, Spider Man 3), and Shaun Smith (The Forbidden Kingdom, 300, I am Legend) who will be the special make-up supervisor, Christopher Young (Spider Man 3) as the music producer, famous Asian costume directing team with William Chang, Chung-Man Yee and Guo Pee. Cheung Ka-Fai, winner of editing awards. Soi Cheang as director and Donnie Yen as the action choreographer. They are now teaming up to build a famous Chinese mythological adventure story with the Hollywood technical team in order to raise the Chinese Language picture into new heights.