Journey to the West (2013) on Netflix
PG-1320131h 50mActionAdventureComedyFantasyRomance
Tang Sanzang, who calls himself a demon hunter, tries to save a riverside village from the creature in its water. He sings nursery rhymes to demons, which the hunter Duan scorns.
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- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.7/1015,310 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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Plot summary
A riverside village lives in fear of a creature in the water. A Taoist priest slays a giant manta ray and declares the demon dead; Tang Sanzang, who calls himself a demon hunter, says the animal was not the one, so the villagers string him up. The creature returns, and Sanzang, freed, drives it onto the bank with the survivors. It becomes a man, and he sings to it from a book of nursery rhymes, the method his master taught him. The hunter Duan captures it as a puppet and scorns his approach.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Journey to the West (2013)
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- With US$215 million worldwide, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons became the highest grossing Chinese-language film ever. It held that title until Monster Hunt surpassed it in 2015.
- Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons grossed US$215 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Chinese-language film ever. Monster Hunt overtook it in 2015 as the highest-grossing Chinese film ever produced.
- On 14 February 2013 the film took 122 million yuan (US$19.6 million) in a single day in China, overtaking the 112 million yuan held by Transformers: Dark of the Moon to become the biggest single-day gross in the country's box-office history.
- The film opened in China with 78 million yuan (US$12.5 million) on its first day, beating the 70 million yuan opening-day record set by Painted Skin: The Resurrection in June 2012 as the biggest opening-day gross for a Chinese film.
