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A Chinese Tall Story
A Chinese Tall Story () is a 2005 Hong Kong fantasy adventure film written and directed by Jeffrey Lau. The story is loosely based on the novel "Journey to the West".
Synopsis.
It is a twisted story about the monk Tripitaka and his three disciples who are journeying west to acquire Buddhist scriptures. While stopping in Shache City (present day Yarkand), they come under attack by minions of the evil Tree Demon. The demons capture his three disciples.
Tripitaka is
has raised many questions and hypotheses as to his origin and story. Some believe that it is an abbreviation of "Anxi", the Chinese name given to the regions ruled by the Parthian Empire. Most visitors from that country who took a Chinese name received the "An" prefix to indicate their origin in "Anxi".It is still unknown whether he was a monk or layperson or whether he should be considered a follower of the Sarvāstivāda or Mahāyāna, though affiliation with these two groups need not be viewed as mutually exclusive