Nezha Conquers the Dragon King

The film is an adaptation of a story in Chinese mythology (in particular, the epic fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods) about the warrior deity Nezha. After a gestation period of three and a half years, Lady Yin, the wife of General Li Jing, gives birth to a flesh ball, which becomes a lotus flower, from which Nezha is born. Nezha is born able to walk and talk, and is taken on as a student of the immortal Taiyi Zhenren.

The Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, tired of being peaceful, have become cruel and destructive, plaguing China with destructive storms and a drought. The people beg for rain, but the East Sea Dragon King Ao Guang ignores them, telling the yaksha Ye Sha to go and find children for him to eat. Ye Sha captures one of Nezha's friends as he is bathing by the ocean, and Nezha confronts him, injuring him badly. Ao Guang sends his third son, Ao Bing, next. Ao Bing is killed by Nezha, infuriating Ao Guang.

A variety of confrontations ensue between Nezha and Ao Guang. Ao Guang and the other Dragon Kings wreak havoc on the people, causing storms, floods and all manners of natural disasters. Seeing this, Nezha takes his father's sword, tells his parents that he is returning their flesh and bones to them, and calls out for his master before committing suicide by slitting his throat.

He is reborn with the help of his master, again from a lotus blossom, and is given new weapons and abilities. After breaking into Ao Guang's underwater palace, he confronts Ao Guang and the other Dragon Kings again, and is finally triumphant.

In the United Kingdom, the film was broadcast on BBC Two in England in the early evening on 23 December 1984, in an English-language version directed by Louis Elman for Leah International which titled the film Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings (sometimes rendered in TV listings as Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon King in the singular).[4] As well as replacing the dialogue, it also replaced Jin Fuzai's score performed by the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra with one by Ivor Slaney. This version was released on video by BBC Enterprises in 1986[5] and rebroadcast earlier in the day for a few times during 1988.[6][7][8]

The film was released on DVD with the original Chinese audio English subtitles in 2005, with Nezha Conquers the Dragon King as its English title.[9]

• Banjō Ginga as Li Gen (voice: Japanese version)
• Daisuke Gōri as Li Jing – Nezha's father (voice: Japanese version)
• Junko Hori as Little boy 1 (voice: Japanese version)
• Ichirō Nagai as Master Taiyi / Li Jing's chancellor (voice: Japanese version)
• Masako Nozawa as Nizha (voice: Japanese version)
• Nachi Nozawa as Ao Guang's chancellor (voice: Japanese version)
• Mari Okamoto as Little girl (voice: Japanese version)
• Chikao Ōtsuka as Dragon King (voice: Japanese version)
• Tomiko Suzuki as Little boy 2 (voice: Japanese version)
• Norio Wakamoto as Ao Bing (voice: Japanese version)

Nezha as a Google Doodle on Google Hong Kong and Google Taiwan

On 30 May 2014, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King was featured on Google Search's homepage as an animated doodle.[10][11]

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• List of animated feature films of 1979

• Nezha Conquers the Dragon King at IMDb