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Nezha nao hai (1979)
Great childhood memory
The English title is "Little Nezha" (Nai-ya), it tells the story of an emperor's wife laying an egg instead of giving birth, the emperor is outraged, however before he cuts the egg with his sword in anger, his son is born from the egg and givin special powers from a wise old man (Tai-yee) to battle the 5 dragon kings terrorising china.
This is superb traditional Chinese animation, the dubbing isn't amazing (what dubs are??), but acceptable. Kids and adults will enjoy this, though there is some shocking scenes, though I didn't mind them at all when I was a kid. The music alone is amazing, very atmospheric and memorable. Find this on VHS on ebay, I did!! You wont regret it.
Cube (1997)
Worst ending I've seen in a long time, yet such a clever film...
Starting off a little slow, and with no background the viewer is helpless to resist the curiousity as you are obligated to see what happens from when we first meet our party, and find out their fate. Somewhat reminisent to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" showing how human nature will be our demise, how blind human's can be, how stupid, and selfish, when faced with such a predicament. The ending dissapointed me, but the traps were quite impressive, as was the ingenius idea. Its a film that'll make you ponder our existance long afterwards..