Click here to copy URL

Legend of the Demon Cat

Kûkai

2017

Chen Kaige

Huang Xuan, Shôta Sometani, Kitty Zhang, Eric Qin ...

5.5

70

Fantasy. Drama Taking place in the Tang Dynasty, a demon cat appears and breaks the peace of Chang'an City, causing a series of strange events. Poet Bai Letian and Monk Kukai join hands to investigate the death of Concubine Yang by following the trial left by the cat, unveiling a buried fact.

	Media	Author	Review
		Maggie Lee Variety	"A visually and mentally seductive piece of historic revisionism (...) [A] stunning blockbuster (...) Something of ravishing beauty."
		Clarence Tsui The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] prioritizes sprawling spectacle over involving storytelling and falls far short of the historical and social allegories with which he made his name"
		John Berra Screendaily	"Chen winds up with little more than an elaborate shaggy cat story, although one that is not without its fair share of incidental pleasures"
		Rafael Motamayor Bloody Disgusting	"An entertaining and heartfelt fantasy mystery that feels part Sherlock Holmes, and part The Woman in Black (...) [It] never stop entertaining"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.