Journey to the West

Tang Zhijun, a middle-aged man who is down and out, is the editor-in-chief of a science fiction magazine.

A question that has puzzled him all his life leads him to embark on another journey to find aliens.

Filmmaker Kong Dashan’s feature debut, which shares the same title as Wu Cheng’s Chinese 16th century classic Journey to the West, is a modern Odyssey for a generation of idealists.

Just like the Chinese novel, this is an adventure story with comic side plots, emotional depth, and spiritual enlightenment as its goal.

Tang needs this long search, to discover that while he seeks contact with aliens he forgets the world around him.