THE TWELVE FAIRIES (至尊無敵之戰神)
dir. Chiu Chung-hing, 1990
Taiwan. 91 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 - 10 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 17 - MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, MAY 30 - 5 PM

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Long ago when the world still looked like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the Buddha staged a race around the world to decide which twelve sacred animals would comprise the Chinese zodiac, leaving behind his young emissary, Bai Mai (Shadow Liu), to help maintain the balance between good and evil. Centuries later, Bai Mai must summon the forces of the zodiac, each of whom takes the form of a human being that embodies the archetypal characteristics of their respective animals, to defeat an army of darkness spawning from Devil’s Island.

From the same team behind the PEACH films comes our deepest, wildest, and most poorly-translated cut of the series. For his final film as director, Chiu Chung-hing goes out with a bang, uniting the stars of his two biggest hits— HELLO DRACULA’s Shadow Liu and Peach Kid him/herself, Lin Hsiao-lu, here playing a completely different magically-powered kung fu fighting child— for a deliriously entertaining blend of animation, puppetry, trippy effects, wire-fu, Rube Goldberg traps, and pyrotechnics, with a climactic sequence that just about tops everything else Kinko Yingi Co. had done to-date. And yes, in case you were wondering, the avatar for the Pig spirit is indeed a cop.