Da Yu Hai Tang (Movie)

In an old mythical world, there reside spirit-like beings who oversee the natural order of the mortal realm. One of them, a young girl named Chun, has just come of age and must undergo her rite of passage by experiencing the human world for herself. While there, she gets caught in a fishing net during a storm and is rescued by a human boy.

However, the boy ends up drowning during the incident, and Chun returns to her realm full of guilt. Afterwards, she meets the Soul Keeper and decides to revive the boy in exchange for a part of her lifespan. Little does she know, meddling with the natural order of the world has severe consequences.

Da Yu Hai Tang is a story about sacrifice and redemption as Chun comes to terms with the limitations of her powers and deals with death, love, and her own emotions. She must decide if she will sacrifice everything to save the human boy or forsake her moral obligation for the order of the world.

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Qiu Main

Chiba, Shouya Japanese

Chun Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Po, Ling Main

Kun Main

Kun's Sister Supporting

Yoshida, Kiyoshi Music

Placha, Mônica ADR Director

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Jun 11, 2023

L_Afridi

Recommended

Really liked this anime, unrequited love of young kids sacrifice and revive. Though many viewers has different opinions because of the ending.
Well in my opinion the way story progressed it was for the best.

As in reality forever friendship between a man and female cannot exist. As there's no man on earth who would like his woman to be in a close relationship with another man unless he's her blood brother. In short a woman needs to be reserved.

So, that being the case i liked her choice. And it wasn't like she played with anyone, her feelings was transparent. She even made it clear ... to the side hero. Even though if someone does anything stupid, we can never blame her for that.
Also in this series all 3 MC's sacrificed themselves (their lives) for their loved one. So, how can we say that the last sacrifice was greater than all other that happened before??

Hypothetically, if we reverse the choice she made in the end. That she choses not to came on earth, and stayed where she was. No tragedy happened. Now would that not mean she changed her hero right before the ending?
If that happened how many of us would have liked that ending?

So, my end line is ending was fine according to the story, also the story itself was great. I also don't have any problems with the characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Aug 30, 2021

RESOLVING_POWER

Mixed Feelings

I watched the movie Da Yu Hai Tang, also known as Big Fish & Begonia. It is a Chinese animated movie and I watched it with Chinese audio. Here are my thoughts:

If I could describe this movie in one word it would be "strange." This movie is very strange. It involves a lot of supernatural and mythical themes. It makes me think of the absurd fables that are part of ancient mythologies, such as Greek or Indian mythology. This movie feels like a strange illogical fable straight out of some ancient mythological belief system. In fact, the movie apparently does draw on some themes from ... Chinese mythology. It could be that my complete lack of knowledge in that area impeded my understanding of the story.

Visually, it looked pretty good. Animation quality was high. There were lots of strange creatures too which were entertaining to watch. This movie doesn't really look like anime both in terms of art style as well as the animated movement itself. The animation style feels more like western animation, despite its Chinese origin. This felt like a demented Pixar film to me. It's worth noting that I am quite sick right now and I watched this with a fever which probably amplified the delirious feeling of the movie.

The story itself was quite incoherent and often rushed. Many things were unclear in terms of plot as well as character motivations. I spent most of the movie confused about what was happening. Both the writing and execution of the plot are the weakest aspects of this movie. The exposition during the first half of the movie was also quite rushed and left me confused before the plot even really kicked in. My confusion continued to compound as things progressed.

Audio in this was really good. Audio production quality was high. The soundtrack was very good. There were some really nice Chinese vocals that played during the ending credits as well.

My overall rating: 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jul 1, 2021

Zonyboi

Not Recommended

Well-written

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Originality isn't always good, and this is a clear example of that. Big Fish & Begonia is a pathetic piece of work made by a team that has absolutely no idea of how to write a fucking film.

One thing that annoys me is a good concept that was carried out horribly. This movie fails trying to explain itself, and almost all events happen with no fucking reason, and the audience has to guess why it happened; how was the fish related to the gigantic flood? Why was the rat lady punished? Why was the fish that big of a threat? Why did the protagonists ... revive that many times, when they literally sold their lives once? Why did the grandpa get set on fire? How did the world work? Why did the plot contradict itself so many times? None of these questions were even close to being answered, and it is completely impossible to follow a plot that doesn't know how to respect itself.

BF&B's animation is mediocre at best, and the character design is utterly disgusting and hard to look at. The only good aspect when talking about this film's visuals might be the scenery, as it looks surprisingly good. However, this film tries way too hard to combine 3D objects with 2D characters, and it's needless to say that it simply didn't work out.

One of the most gigantic issues this movie has is its incapability of creating likeable characters. Each and every single character feels like a inert piece of cardboard, and their faces express less emotions than a rock. I think the only character that's bareable at most is the soul trader, simply because he is an interesting concept of a character. The voice acting is utterly awful. Children sounding like adults is ridiculous, and their acting is simply unbearable and pitiful. Seiyūs like these make me want to vomit.

Overall, BF&B is a horrible piece of work that tries way too hard to create a likeable and complex setting with just 100 minutes of watch-time. This is undoubtedly the worst movie I've ever seen, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. An utter waste of time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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