A Chinese Odyssey

A Chinese Odyssey
Hong Kong Blu-ray disc box set
Directed byJeffrey Lau
Screenplay byJeffrey Lau
Based onJourney to the West
by Wu Cheng'en
Produced byYeung Kwok-fai
StarringStephen Chow
Athena Chu
Ng Man-tat
Yammie Lam
Karen Mok
Law Kar-ying
Jeffrey Lau
Lu Shuming
Ada Choi
CinematographyPoon Hang-sang
Ray Wong
William Yim
Edited byHai Kit-wai
Music byZhao Jiping
Lowell Lo
Production
companies
Xi'an Film Studio
Choi Sing Film Company
Distributed bySan Bo
Mega Star
Media Asia
Release dates
  • 21 January 1995 (1995-01-21) (Part 1)
  • 4 February 1995 (1995-02-04) (Part 2)
Running time
Part 1: 87 minutes
Part 2: 95 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese (original)
Mandarin (dub)
Box officePart 1: HK$25,093,380
Part 2: HK$20,872,117; CN¥189.202 million (mainland China)[1]
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
Traditional Chinese西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒
Simplified Chinese西游记第一百零一回之月光宝盒
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīyóujì Dì Yībǎilíngyī Huí Zhī Yuèguāng Bǎohé
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSai1-jau4-gei3 Dai6 Jat1-baak3-ling4-jat1 Wui4 Zi1 Jyut6-gwong1 Bou2-hap6
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
Traditional Chinese西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣
Simplified Chinese西游记大结局之仙履奇缘
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīyóujì Dà Jiéjú Zhī Xiānlǚ Qíyuán
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSai1-jau4-gei3 Dai6 Git3-guk6 Zi1 Sin1-leoi5 Kei4-jyun4

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, was released in China on 14 September 2016.[2]

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.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cbooo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "大话西游3 (2016)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  3. ^ Chew, Matthew Ming-tak (10 June 2020). "Discovering the digital Stephen Chow: The transborder influence of Chow's films on the Chinese Internet in the 2010s". Global Media and China. 5 (2): 124–137. doi:10.1177/2059436420928058. S2CID 220320971.