Dahufa

Dahufa is an interesting and unusual title. Althrough having watched bunch of them, I’m not exactly a fan of Chinese anime, but it’s works like this or the Big Fish and Begonia that make me have some faith in the potential of this type of animation.

If you’ve already watched some Chinese animations, you might notice that lot of the times the story tends to be confusing and seeming like it leaves out a lot of the info. Usually this leads to the story seeming lacklustre, but in case of Dahufa it actually works. While the story doesn’t explain anything at the start, it opens ... up with a mysterious and intriguing world that makes you want to continue and see what is going on, and as you continue with the movie the details are slowly being unveiled. It might be a bit far-fetched comparation, but it feels a bit like playing a Dark Souls game for the first time – you get thrown in an unknown world filled with curious creatures and you try to piece together the story from the dialogue of the characters and the scenery around you. And it is a story that actually surprised me with some moments – in a good way, though saying how would be a spoiler.

The animation is well done, and while not being that detailed it’s the flow and the movement it excels at. It’s nice to look at and welcomed change from the usual lower budget animations Chinese anime tends to have.

Dahufa is a movie that I would recommend even if you’re not interested in watching Chinese animation, and might even be a good starting point for watching it.

I highly recommend this anime, many people may not like this due to the language, but if you can hold it, this is one amazing anime movie.

Entirely a new storyline & this is not a human or monster-based story, this is different in a lot of ways.
Please give it a try, you will definitely love it.

Even though this is a silent or less dialogued movie, every scene was conveyed properly & the art style was unique as far as I know.

If you are bored watching a lot of animes, try this one, you will get a new perspective & it is kind of mild ... & enjoyable.

Well, the first 5 min of the movie I expected to see some childish movie, maybe dreamlike chinese fairy tale, but I was totally wrong, this is a very crude, violent and serious movie, not in the wrong sense, but I wouldnt recommend people with 15 years or less of age to see this movie.

The first third of the movie is very mysterious, but the truth is revealed short after it, *spoiler warning*: this movie is about a village of non-human persons being slaved and slaughtered by a tyrant who farm them. *spoiler closed*

Not wonder chinese media didnt like this movie, because it handle topics ... like slavery, fear and ignorance as a way to rule, and dictatorship, also, the ending of the movie is very crude.

In the end, is a very crude movie, full of action and violence (even if the blood is not red), that deals with a very serious topic, I can recommend it to whoever is interested in the topic, but it is not a happy movie at all.