New Arabian Nights (Xin tianfang ye tan 新天方夜譚) (1947)

Fantasy Romance

Showing off his love of visual aesthetics as a painter, director Dan Duyu combines elegance, exoticism and oddity into a grand big-budget package with New Arabian Nights. Dan's vision is definitely not bound by the source material, but his magical and music-filled version of the orient turns out to be not so different from how Western storytellers would imagine it.

Updated Jul 14 2019