Director: Wang Yunfei
Screenwriter: Wu Xiaoyu / Wang Yunfei
Starring: Bian Jiang/Zhang Lei/Cai Haiting/Su Shangqing/Zhang He/Lin Qiang/Liu Sicen/Wang Chenguang/Baomu Zhongyang/Zhang Bin/Chang Jin/Tut Hamon/Zhang Yaohan/Bai Xuecen/Qiu Qiu/Chang Wentao/Li Jiaxiang
Genre: Action / Animation / Fantasy
Country/Region of Production: Mainland China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 2021-04-02 (Mainland China) / 2021-08-07 (Re-release in Mainland China)
Duration: 95 minutes
Also known as: Journey to the West: Ginseng Fruit / Monkey King Reborn
IMDb: tt14391088
Type: Retelling
Summary:
When chaos first emerged, the world's first demon came into the world, named Primordial / Yuan Di (voiced by Zhang Lei), and was regarded as the ancestor of the demon. Millions of years later, the former demon king Sun Wukong (voiced by Bian Jiang) was rescued from the Five Elements Mountain by Tang Seng (played by Su Shangqing). Wukong promised to protect Tang Seng and go to the West to learn scriptures. The legendary demon ancestor Yuan Di appears again, and the Three Realms are in danger. Two generations of demon kings are destined for a final battle, but this time, Sun Wukong meets a real powerful enemy.
Kim-un-Kamuy, the Ainu Kamuy of bears and mountains. One of the most revered Kamuy, Kim-un-Kamuy is praised for his strength. However at the beginning of creation another Kamuy who rivaled Kim-un-kamuy’s strength challenged the bear Kamuy. This Kamuy was known as Etaspe-Kamuy, the Kamuy of Sea Lions. The two agreed to settle their rivalry with a race, whoever lost would have their respective species be banished to the sea. Though the race was close, the mighty Bear spirit won, with the Sea lions being banished to the Sea. In spite of their loss, Etaspe-Kamuy will provoke Kim-un-Kamuy by sending his Sea lions onto the shore, while Kim-un-Kamuy will send his bears to push them back into the sea. Another myth describes that when Kim-un-kamuy’s wife and daughter got lost in the mortal world, an Ainu village found them. When Kim-un-Kamuy came to rescue them, the village surprised him with a wonderful feast, a feast so delicious and wonderful that it lured several other Kamuy. At the end of the feast as Kim-un-Kamuy was leaving the village promised him that if any of his family were to be lost in the mortal world again, they’d guide them back to Kim-un-Kamuy with another banquet.
Kim-un-Kamuy is one of, if not, the most well known Ainu Kamuy. His importance among the Hokkaido Ainu is magnified due to the island being a mountainous region, as well as Hokkaido being the home of many brown bears. However the most conversed aspect of the worship of Kim-un-Kamuy is the sending back ritual. The ritual entails an Ainu village adopting an orphaned or abandoned bear cub. For a year the villagers raise the cub, feeding it and treating it with the up most amount of love. After a year passed the villagers then shoot the bear cub to death with arrows. The Cub’s death isn’t seen as cruel or inhumane to the Ainu, as in their belief, the cub’s death sends it back to its originator: Kim-un-Kamuy, in a sense continuing the tradition of the 2nd myth mentioned above.
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okay.. so if you were the tall bearded man who looked suspiciously like Neil Gaiman in downtown soho/London and heard me aggressively talking about Mike Faist bc he’s on the West End and also turned around and laughed when I loudly stated ‘YO THAT DUDE LOOKS LIKE NEIL”… I’m so sorry…😭💀
[Picture this]
Me and a friend walking, talking, maybe inebriated 👀🤏🧐
Me: “Its a little offensive that I’m not married to him. I’m single, he’s beautiful and talented, I don’t get it”
Friend: “Perfect Match😅👀”
Me: [Almost trips]
Me:
Me: [See’s a man with a beard and the aura of audacity - just enough to write soul crushing stories about demons and gods and scary roads]
I did a few doodles over Twitter and would like to show them here because honestly- I liked them! Imma put them all in one post cuz it's easier that way (I apologize for the long post)
This one shows off the designs for the ghouls that I have done (for now) I still plan on doing more but I found myself doodling these sillies more when I first got obsessed with Ghost.
+ This Mountain ghoul bonus doodle, it was more like an extra note about their form!
This one is about the Ghoulettes, I still gotta come up with their designs but I have a few things in mind already
Sleepy Mountain doodle because I was very sleepy when I doodled it fjahhjf
Ifrit. My only way to describe this one is Terzo is better than me cuz I would've gone insane (He moves like a cartoon character, how can I not.)
I still plan on finishing the design too since I have something in mind but this is it for now!
And the final doodle: Ghoul cuddle pile, but they fell asleep.
I apologize once again for the long post but hawjf just got too lazy to separate them all