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(On the theme of fantastic fiction)

It's remarkably hard to find good translations of classic Chinese works such as The Investiture of the Gods, though there is

https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Teahouse-Retold-Investiture-God...

China is having its best success with video games like Genshin Impact but I'd highly recommend the 2010 Three Kingdoms

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL33A390995E9A7F00

(you'd never see tough legendary warriors in western culture cry the way the heroes do in that show)

Also there is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film)

which is pretty good despite being packed with the same kind of fart jokes you'd expect in a Dreamworks movie.




(thanks for the jade!)

TIL why I also got CGI results when I had earlier been searching for Jiang Ziya.

[In a Super Dimension Fortress crossover, the singer would get a chorus of おぼえていますか while the old man destroys the staircase?]

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CToPsT1UF10

EDIT: for western weeping: porque no El Cid?


Pedantry:

  En silencio     intensamente llorando,
  volvía la cabeza,  los estaba mirando.
https://miocid.wlu.edu/folios/01r.html




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