included · Causal Loop

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

Jeffrey Lau · 88 minutes

When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.

Fantasy, Action, Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Repeated attempts to save Jingjing and the five-century overshoot become major temporal action late in the story.

Joker uses a magical box to repeat attempts to avert Jingjing's suicide before overshooting five centuries; repeated interval takes priority over the magical cause.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan58.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.3/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 98.42 base × 59.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Stephen Chow, Karen Mok Man-Wai, Yammie Lam Kit-Ying, Ng Man-Tat, Law Kar-Ying

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

8 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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