Legend of Sealed Book

Legend of Sealed Book
Legend of Sealed Book
Directed by
Release date	January 1, 1983
Running time	89 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin

Legend of Sealed Book (Chinese: 天书奇谭; pinyin: Tian Shu Qi Tan) is a Chinese animated feature film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. 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 literary work Ping Yao Zhuan (平妖傳, "The Suppression of the Demons") authored by Feng Menglong.^[1]

Story[]

Yuangong, the deacon, opens the shrine and exposes the holy book to the human world. He also carves the contents of the book on the stone wall of white cloud cave in the mountains. He is then punished by the Jade Emperor to guard the book for life for breaking heaven's law and betraying the holy secret to humankind. In order to pass this holy book to human beings, he must 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.

References[]

^ ClubCity. "ClubCity Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine." Animation List. Retrieved on 2006-01-17.

External links[]

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[1] ClubCity. "ClubCity Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine." Animation List. Retrieved on 2006-01-17.

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