New Gods: Yang Jian
- kinetic
- inventive
Warm, breathless, measured animation / adventure, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Fifteen hundred years after the war of gods, the heaven declined. Yang Jian, the God of Erlang, made a living by working as a catcher. One day, Yang Jian was ordered to hunt down a young man, his own nephew.
Our read · New Gods: Yang Jian (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal animation · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of New Gods
What watching it is actually like.
“You want flashy Chinese 3D animation retelling mythic gods in epic battles.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike long complicated mythology or need English audio.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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