1941 animated film
Princess Iron Fan
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Directed by
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Produced by
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Distributed by
| Cinema Epoch
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Release date
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- 19 November 1941
(
1941-11-19
)
(
China
)
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Running time
| 73 min
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Country
| China
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Princess Iron Fan
(
traditional Chinese
:
鐵扇公主
;
simplified Chinese
:
?扇公主
;
pinyin
:
Ti? shan g?ngzh?
), is the first
Chinese animated
feature film
. It is also considered the first Asian animated feature film. The film is based on an episode of the 16th-century novel
Journey to the West
. It was directed in
Shanghai
under difficult conditions in the thick of
World War II
by
Wan Guchan
and
Wan Laiming
(the
Wan brothers
) and was released on November 19, 1941.
The film later became influential in the development of East Asian animation, including Japanese anime, Vietnamese animation, Korean animation and Chinese animation.
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Plot
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The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese novel
Journey to the West
.
Princess Iron Fan
is a main character.
Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the
Monkey King
and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.
Creators
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English Production
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Original Version
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Crew
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Romanized
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Produced by
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監製
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S.K Chang (Zhang Shankun)
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張善琨
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Screenplay by
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編劇
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Wang Qianbai
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王乾白
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Screenwriting Consultant
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顧問
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Chen Yiqing
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陳翼?
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Sound Recorded by
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錄音
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Liu Enze
Using Chinatone Technology
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劉恩澤
採用中華通錄音機
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Musical Director
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音樂指揮
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Huang Yijun
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黃貽鈞
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Musical Consultant
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音樂顧問
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Zhang Zhengfan
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章正凡
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Composer
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作曲
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Lu Zhongren
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陸仲任
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Sound Effects
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效果
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Chen Zhong
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陳中
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Editing
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剪輯
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Wang Jinyi
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王金義
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Printing
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洗印
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Xu Hexiang
Lin Xiangfu
Chen Xinyu
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許荷香
林祥富
陳?甫
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Designers
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設計
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Chen Qifa
Fei Boyi
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陳?發
費伯夷
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Photography
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攝影
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Liu Guangxing
Chen Zhengfa
Zhou Jiarang
Shi Fengqi
Sun Feixia
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劉廣興
陳正發
周家讓
石鳳岐
孫緋霞
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Backgrounds
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背景
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Cao Xu
Chen Fangqian
Tang Tao
Fan Manyun
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曹旭
陳方千
唐濤
范曼雲
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Illustrators
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繪稿
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Yu Yiru
Li Yi
Liu Wenjie
Wu Guang
Yin Fusheng
Chen Jintao
Xie Minyan
Liu Chenfei
Zhao Fengshi
Zhu Yong
Liu Yimeng
Shen Youming
Hu Sixiao
Guo Ruisheng
Wu Yan
Jin Fangbin
Cao Zhong
Zhang Danian
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羽翼如
李毅
劉文?
吳光
殷復生
陳錦濤
謝敏燕
劉嗔非
趙逢時
朱湧
劉?蒙
沈叩鳴
胡斯孝
郭瑞生
吳?
金方斌
曹忠
張大年
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Line Drawings
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繪線
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Chen Min
Wu Minfa
Sun Xiuping
Yu Wenwang
Wu Yueting
Huang Zhenwen
Lu Zhongbo
Dai Jue
Ye Lingyun
Zhang Liangqin
Sun Song
Guo Hengyi
Yuan Yongqing
Shen Ruihe
Chen Jinfan
Zhang Jutang
Fang Pinying
Yu Zupeng
Sheng Liangxian
Shen Zhongxia
Tang Yude
Lu Guangyi
Zhang Tan
Zhu Shunlin
Ding Baoguang
Shi Fakang
Zhao Shengzai
Qin Qixian
Yang Jinxin
Feng Bofan
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陳民
?民發
孫修平
?文望
吳悅庭
黃振文
陸仲柏
戴覺
葉凌雲
章亮欽
孫松
郭?義
袁永慶
沈瑞鶴
陳錦範
張菊堂
方品英
?祖鵬
盛亮賢
沈忠俠
唐秉德
陸光儀
張談
朱順麟
丁竇光
石發康
趙盛哉
欽其賢
楊錦新
馮伯富
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Color Artists
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者色
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Yuan Huimin
Weng Huanbo
Ge Yongliang
Wang Zengting
Wang Congzhou
Quan Han
Lin Kezhen
Li Shifen
Mi Longnian
Yuan Yuyao
Yuan Zichuan
Xu Huifen
Zou Guiying
Xu Huilan
Chen Huiying
Cai Yongfa
Dai Keshu
Dai Kehui
Luo Zong
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袁慧敏
翁煥伯
戈永良
王增庭
王從周
全漢
林可珍
李世芬
宓龍年
袁玉瑤
袁子傳
許惠芬
鄒桂英
許蕙蘭
陳慧英
蔡永發
戴克淑
戴克惠
羅?
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Lead Artists
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主繪
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Wan Laiming
Wan Guchan
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萬?鳴
萬古蟾
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Background
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The Wan family twins
Wan Laiming
and
Wan Guchan
with their brothers
Wan Chaochen
and
Wan Dihuan
were the first animators in China. After the release of their first "real" cartoon,
Uproar in the Studio
(1926), they continued to dominate China's animation industry for the next several decades. In the late 1930s, with Shanghai under
Japanese occupation
, they began work on China's first
feature-length
animated film. In 1939, the
Wan brothers
saw
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
and set the standard in attempting to create a film of equal quality for the nation's honor.
The film took three years, 237 artists and 350,000
yuan
to make.
Rotoscoping
was used extensively to save money, and the eyes of the live actors are often visible in the faces of the animated characters.
By 1940, the film would render past 20,000 frames, using up more than 200 thousand pieces of paper (400ream=500×400). They shot over 18,000 ft (5,500 m) of footage. And the final piece would contain 7,600 ft (2,300 m) of footage which can be shown in 80 minutes. The
Wan brothers
also invited the following actors and actresses for sound dubbing (白虹),(?月玲),(姜明),(??根),(殷秀岑). At the time, they were at the
Xinhua Film Company
animation department since it was the only remaining production company left during the period of the Japanese occupation. The manager of the company who help financed the film was
Zhang Shankun
.
Princess Iron Fan
became the first animated feature film to be made in
China
. Upon completion the film was screened by the Chinese union film company.
Influence
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Princess Iron Fan'
s influences were far-reaching;
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it was swiftly exported to wartime Japan, inspiring the 16-year-old
Osamu Tezuka
to become a comics artist and prompting the
Japanese Navy
to commission Japan's own first feature-length animated film, 1945's
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors
(the earlier film
Momotaro's Sea Eagles
is three minutes shy of being feature-length).
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See also
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References
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- ^
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"An Animated Wartime Encounter: Princess Iron Fan and the Chinese Connection in Early Japanese Animation"
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Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
,
Harvard University
. Archived from
the original
on 1 March 2019.
Specifically, it focuses
Princess Iron Fan
(1941), the first animated feature film made in China and Asia, and how its wartime travel to Japan gave rise to the birth of animated feature films in wartime Japan. It also impacted Tezuka Osamu (1928-1989), the so-called god of modern Japanese manga and anime whose works were shadowed by
Princess Iron Fan
from the beginning to the end of his career.
Princess Iron Fan
transformed the early history of Japanese animation, yet its national identity was changed by the journey.
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"Princess Iron Fan"
.
Far East Film Festival
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China's first feature-length cartoon, the third in the world, exerted an incredible influence on the Asian animation market.... It also inspired the Japanese to make their own animated feature, indirectly pollinating the early anime industry. PRINCESS IRON FAN was cited as a major influence on Japan's greatest manga artist Osamu Tezuka, who entered the field after seeing it as a boy in 1943.
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