Starring Joey Wong, Wu Ma, Ling Fung. Our Price: US$ 5 - Free Shipping Worldwide-Availability : Usually ships within 24.Huli jing - Wikipedia. The creature appearing under the name nine- tailed fox (. The foxes there have four legs and nine tails. According to another version, it is located north of Sunrise Valley. There is a beast here whose form resembles a fox with nine tails. It makes a sound like a baby and is a man- eater. Whoever eats it will be protected against insect- poison (gu). Such beings are able to know things at more than a thousand miles' distance; they can poison men by sorcery, or possess and bewilder them, so that they lose their memory and knowledge; and when a fox is thousand years old, it ascends to heaven and becomes a celestial fox. It serves in the Palace of the Sun and Moon and has its own fu (talisman) and a jiao ritual. It can transcend yin and yang. They make offerings in their bedchambers to beg for their favor. The foxes share people. They do not serve a single master. At the time there was a figure of speech saying, 'Where there is no fox demon, no village can be established.'. One of the most infamous fox spirits in Chinese mythology was Daji (. A beautiful daughter of a general, she was married forcibly to the cruel tyrant Zhou Xin (. A nine- tailed fox spirit who served N. The spirit, as Daji, and her new husband schemed cruelly and invented many devices of torture, such as forcing righteous officials to hug red- hot metal pillars. Finally, King Wen of Zhou, one of the vassals of Shang, founded a new dynasty named after his country. The fox spirit in Daji's body was later driven out by Jiang Ziya (. In the fantasy novel The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt, a huli jing teaches a young girl magic, enabling her to conjure armies with her spells. Chinese Torture/Supplice chinois. A Brief History of Chinese Fiction. Translated by Hsien- yi Yang; Gladys Yang. Foreign Language Press. 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When our story begins, a group of men, lost in the desert, come across an oasis filled with beautiful maidens. But all is not what it seems, as they are in fact being bewitched by a ravenous group of foxes. The Hunt King (Wu Ma) suddenly appears and fox maidens are dispatched switftly. Their leader gets away. The Hunt King is in the employ of the Wei family, a family of furriers going back generations. They were once quite powerful, but have been in decline for some time. Now, His Majesty (T'ien), the master of all foxes, wants the Wei line to be exterminated forever. And more importantly, he wants their chop, which has the magic ability of preventing a dead fox from reincarnating. The chop's magic will keep him alive, after having been injured by the Wei family 4. He isn't looking too good, however - - apparently a 4. I should mention that a chop is the family seal - - it's sort of like using a stamp to put your name on something instead of signing. These are still used in the place of signing a document, check, or what have you throughout eastern Asia. The concept makes me a little nervous. I mean, if someone steals your chop, they pretty much have free reign to sign whatever they want and no one can detect it is a forgery. The foxes conspire to rid themselves of the Wei family, which is conveniently down to one person: Wei's 1. Brother Ten, who is out on a boat with his friend, drinking wine and reading poetry. Two fox sisters open up their own kind of brothel boat and lure them on. One of the sisters is - - yes, I'm afraid so - - she's Joey Wong. And once you see that, the rest of the plot sort of becomes self evident, especially after you've watched enough of these. While she's beckoning from the balcony you can predict - - Number Ten is a scholar, not very bright, and will behave like a little puppy in love Joey Wong will inexplicably fall in love with the dopey scholar Joey Wong will cross her boss at crucial moments to save the scholar's life They won't live happily ever after So with all the above suddenly a given, what's there to look forward to? Well, with Wu Ma at the helm, we can enjoy the details, the little variations, the depreciating humor, and the action scenes. And hey, enjoy them I did. Brother Ten becomes possessed by Joey Wong (called 'Snow' in this one), and has to be caught and cured, by another eccentric fox hunter, a tough woman with a hook for a hand, named 'Meat.' Meat injures Snow, and Brother Ten is so worried about her fever that he builds an igloo to put her in. In the meantime, the wolf villainess has put on a red robe which has two pointy twists of fabric on the top, just in case she didn't look satanic enough. She basically busies herself yelling at Snow about falling in love with a human, and killing people. When Meat is unable to defeat her, and properly protect Brother Ten, it's up to the Hunt King to step up and take over. He takes Brother Ten in as his student and teaches him the art of hunting wolves. In one scene, he shows him how to eat wolf shit. He also does another one of his by now mandatory rap song- and- dance numbers, much like he did for A Chinese Ghost Story, this time about wolf hunting. Eventually, the evil wolf woman has had it with Snow waffling around and not killing Brother Ten like she's supposed to. Snow, in her tender way, convinces her to give her nine more days. In the end, Brother Ten must save Snow, Hunt King must save Brother Ten, and Snow must save them all, though the drama of the final conflict is lessened somewhat by how completely cheesy the rubber- masked Master of Foxes looks when he finally re- awakens. Foxy Spirits mixes and matches bits and pieces from dozens of different supernatural tales, without latching on to any single one for its inspiration. The romantic element of the story is similar in feel to stories told in the Liaozhai of Pu Songling. This is the fourth film directed by Wu Ma which explores the boundries between the living world and the supernatural one. Looking at all four films together, The Dead and the Deadly (1. My Cousin, the Ghost (1. Picture of a Nymph (1. Foxy Spirits (1. 99. That's not to say that Foxy Spirits is a bad film, but it does suffer in comparison. There is certainly nothing new here. It's as if we have finished exploring the themes of possession and affection between worlds, and now we're just playing with them. Posted by Peter Nepstad on April 0.
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