Da hu fa

Short, fat, and a formidable fighter, Da Hu Fa – the Grand Protector of Yiwei – is searching for the kingdom’s capricious prince, whose life he is sworn to safeguard. The search brings Da Hu Fa to a town hidden in the mountains, and a strange place it is, indeed. A giant smoky peanut hovers overhead. Paper eyes drift and scatter like dried flower petals. Impish ant-monkeys scurry in the grass. And the scowling little hero receives a silent but rather uncourteous welcome from a pair of axe-wielding woodcutters. For all the colourful posters plastered about, an atmosphere of dread and corruption permeates the place, and violence arises with frightening ease. How could the errant prince survive here? (Fantasia International Film Festival)