Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (DVD with Chinese/English Subtitles)

Nezha Conquers the Dragon King is an animated film directed by Wang Shuchen, Yan Dingxian and Xu Jingda and produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio. It is the first large-scale color widescreen animated feature film in China. The film was released in China on May 19, 1979.

In 1980, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King became the first Chinese-language animated film to be exhibited in Cannes. It has won many awards at major film festivals at home and abroad, including the Best Animated Film Award at the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards in 1980 and the Special Award at the Manila International Film Festival in the Philippines in 1983.

Product: Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (DVD 25th Anniversary Edition)
Authors: Wang Shusheng, Yan Dingxian, and Xu Jingda
Produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio
Language: Chinese, Mandarin
Subtitle: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English
ISBN: 7884144220

The animated cartoon film is based an episode from the Chinese mythological novel Apotheosis of Heroes.

The story opens with Nezha's father Li Jing, a powerful general of Chentang Pass. His wife, after three-year long pregnancy, gives birth to a ball of flesh shaped like a lotus bud. Believing this to be an ill omen, Li Jing chops open the ball with a single swipe of his mighty sword. A beautiful boy-child springs out.

The Great Monad comes to offer his congratulations. He finds the boy to his liking, so he takes him as a disciple and names him Nezha. He then gives him two magic weapons: the Firmament Ring and the Armillary Damask Silk.

One day when Nezha is seven years old he goes to the nearby seashore for a swim. There he encounters a patrolling Yasha demon, stealing children to feed his master, the Dragon King. Nezha wounds the Yasha demon with his Firmament Ring and tries to save a little girl from its clutches. In a rage, the Dragon King sends his third son to capture Nezha, but the son is killed instead. Now completely infuriated, the Dragon King hitches up with the dragon kings of other seas and unleashes a raging storm, wreaking havoc on Chentang Pass and demanding Nezha's magic weapons. Not wanting to involve others in any further misery, Nezha commits suicide. Thus freed from its physical confinement, Nezha's spirit in a lotus flower and transforms the flower into an exact duplicate of the original Nezha. Now with his newly acquired fire-tipped spear in hand and a pair of fire-and-wind wheels under his feet, Nezha heads straight for the Dragon Palace. In a final indignant fury, he turns the palace upside down and beards the Dragon King.

《哪吒闹海》是由王树忱、严定宪、徐景达执导，上海美术电影制片厂制作的一部动画电影，它是我国第一部大型彩色宽银幕动画长片，影片已于1979年5月19日在中国上映。

1980年，《哪吒闹海》成为第一部在戛纳参展的华语动画电影。在国内外各大电影节上均获得过多个奖项，1980年获得大众电影百花奖最佳动画电影奖，1983年获得菲律宾马尼拉国际电影节特别奖。

2025年1月，国家广播电视总局发布“优秀国产动画片集锦”，《哪吒闹海》入选。

影片根据《封神演义》故事改编，主要讲述了哪吒与东海龙宫发生冲突后，为不连累百姓家人自刎身死，后经太乙真人以莲藕塑身复活，大闹东海龙宫的故事。

产品名称：哪吒闹海
作者：王树忱、严定宪、徐景达
语言：中文
媒介：DVD 1

内容简介
陈塘关总兵李靖的夫人怀胎三年零六个月后，生下一个肉球。忽然光芒四射，
从中跳出一个男孩。李靖闷闷不乐，一位名叫太乙真人的道长却来贺喜，为孩儿取名
哪吒，收为徒弟，当场赠他两件宝物：乾坤圈和浑天绫。
　 哪吒七岁，天旱地裂，东海龙王滴水不降，还命夜叉去海边强抢童男童女 。哪
吒见义勇为，用乾坤圈打伤夜叉，又杀了前来增援的龙王之子敖丙。
　 龙王去天宫告状，途中又被哪吒打得半死。于是，东海龙王请来三位兄弟 ，共
商报复之计。第二天，四海龙王带领水兵水将兴风作浪，水淹陈塘关，要李靖交出哪
吒才肯收兵。哪吒想要反击，遭到李靖的阻拦，并收去哪吒的两件法宝。哪吒为了全
城百姓的安危，挺身而出，悲愤自刎。
　 事后，太乙真人借莲花与鲜藕为身躯，使哪吒还魂再世。复生后的哪吒手持火
尖枪、脚踏风火轮，大闹龙宫，战败龙王，为民除害。

Tags: animated film, Nezha, Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio