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Mr Vampire 2Modern grave robbing ?archeologists? find perfectly preserved specimens from the past of a man, a woman, and their child. Unbeknownst to the scientist and his two bumbling assistants, these are vampires immobilized only by the paper spells pasted on their foreheads. While transporting the child to a buyer, its spell blows off and the vampire child escapes and befriends some local children. Eventually, the parent vampires are also awakened and escape, but by now the local herbalist is on their trail to destroy them.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
| Mr VampireDuring a reburial, the local priest notices that the corpse has not decomposed and has the blue fingernails typical of a vampire. Before he can destroy the vampire, it escapes. Now he must deal with the menace, aided only by his two bumbling assistants, one of whom is soon infected by the vampire?s poison while the other is enjoying the embrace of a life-eating she-ghost. The humorous highlight of the movie are the Chinese vampires, who hop comically, which must be seen to be believed.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
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Mr Vampire 4The Buddhist Monk and the Taoist Priest, both blessed with ghost-taming powers, have been quarrelling all over the landscape. Still, they are good friends. The Priest shepherds a group of corpses home. He has to fight off some vicious devils. The Priest's classmate has been assigned the job of accompanying the coffin of a prince back to the capital. One night, a thunderbolt rips the coffin and the prince becomes a vampire. He kills many people. The Priest asks to help. He finds his classmate has killed himself. Before the Priest reaches home, Chia-lo, the Priest's student, is attacked by the princeis attacked by the prince. Chia-lo is rescued by the Priest and the Monk. But when the vampire prince pounces with murderous intensions, the vampire-fighters have to give their last bit of effort and wisdom to save themselves.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
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Monkey KingThe novel Journey to the West (Xiyouji), written by Wu Cheng'en (c.1500-82), begins with the birth of Monkey King on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. Being extremely smart, he learned all the magic tricks from a Taoist master. He can transform himself into seventy-two different images. He can travel 180,000 miles in a single somersault. The weapon that he uses is a golden iron bar that can expand or shrink at its owner's command. Having eaten the peaches of immortality specially grown for the banquet to be held by the Heavenly Queen Mother of the West, the Buddha trap him beneath the Mountain of the Five Elements. Five hundred years later, Wukong was released by the monk Xuan Zang on his quest to obtain the holy Buddhist scriptures from India. These two, and three other pilgrims - Pigsy, Sha Monk and the dragon horse - have to overcome 81 calamities and confrontations in the form of supernatural phenomena and monsters before reaching their goal and returning to China with the texts, which they did and became Buddhas in the end.
Genre: Fantasy
| Mop GirlKitagawa plays the part of the slow but hardworking Momoko, a low-ranking employee at a funeral services company who carries a mop as part of her job. However, Momoko happens to possess a strange ability. Whenever she comes across the corpse of someone who has left strong feelings behind, she travels back in time to save that person from his or her fate..
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
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MondayTakagi (Shinichi Tsutsumi) wakes up in a motel room. He's wearing his good suit. He doesn't know where he is, what day it is, or how he wound up there. Then a packet of "purification salt" -- used to rid something of evil spirits -- falls out of his pocket. Memories start flashing back. A funeral. A Yakuza. A meeting with a local mob boss. An incident of violence with a random couple on the street, and then...
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy,
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MortysDeath is away from home too often collecting souls from dying humans. Her son Mortys is tired of being alone and comes up with a computerized system to speed up the collection and classification of souls at Death's HQ so he can enjoy his mother's company more. Mum thinks the old system is more enjoyable and gentle on humans and prefers it to the new one. However, Mortys is unstoppable.
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy
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