I also think the appearance off the monkey and the pig are interesting if you know that they are part of the Chinese culture or birth year.

I found this on an anime search.

Thanks so much for uploading this unusual film! You can get English subtitles for this film at:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/217085/tie-shan-gong-zhu-en

The subtitles don't quite match up, but at least they enable you to work out what the story's about! You can play the subtitles using a video player that allows the addition of .srt subtitle files to the video, such as the freeware app 'VLC' (http://www.videolan.org)

This is based on a classic 16th century story known as 'Monkey' (of which a BBC TV series was made in the UK in the late 1970's/early 1980's) or 'The Journey to the West', by Wu Ch'eng-en. It's the story of a monk, Tripitaka, who makes a pilgrimage to India accompanied by three animal spirit helpers, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy (a fish spirit) for protection on the journey.

First full length Asian cartoon, made while China was still under brutal Japanese occupation, actually pretty entertaining.

I don't speak a word of Chinese, but the plot seems to follow some cartoon funny animals as they try to infiltrate a house and win, or just sexually harass, the beautiful princess Iron Fan. Most of its the kind of "physical" comedy gags one would see in a contemporary Fleisher Bros. cartoon, so its appreciable and funny, even if you don't speak the language, or know exactly whats going on. The animation quality is nice too.

On a historical note: the Japanese who had liberated Shanghai when this movie came out took a copy back to Japan for their propagandists to study. It then influenced the early development of "anime" cartoons.

This may be a good movie, I don't speak Chinese so I don't know.
No sub-titles or dubbing.

Note that the thumbnails are displayed in their correct aspect at the side of this page, but if you click the "view thumbnails" link the thumbnails in the viewing page are distorted.