A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box Inspired by the Chinese classic A Journey to the West, this film has the Monkey King (Stephen Chow) reincarnated in human form as Joker, a highwayman oblivious to his original identity and the fact that 500 years earlier, he and his master, The Longevity Monk (Kar-Ying Law), were punished to say human until they could complete the journey to the west. Pursued by mythical beings motivated to locate and kill the Longevity Monk, Joker finds himself subjected to extreme emotions of love and loss. Everything is a welter of randomness until he finds and opens the Pandora's Box, which carries him down memory lane to a land of nothingness five hundred years earlier.
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella In this sequel to Pandora's Box, now stranded five centuries in the past, Joker (Stephen Chow) is destined to meet Cinderella, a woman whom he will fall madly in love with and who will change his life altogether. He will also relive the scene of the Monkey King being subdued by Bodhisattva (enlightenment being). Reacquainted with the importance of Longevity Monk's journey to help suffering people, Joker finally agrees to become the Monkey King again and complete the journey to the west with his master. By doing so he must let go of all worldly desires, including love.
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