Hello, yet another 80s Chinese film absolutely nobody would pick up other than me hahaha Worked on this translation during a holiday in December. Unlike the prior two Hua Tuo and Cao Cao 1983 and Romance of a Calligrapher 1982, this is more of a jolly fantasy/fairytale movie than a period-drama, it has a lot of the same charm and style as those previous two films. Legend of Eight Immortals 1985 is very similar in line with some of the public broadcast kids films from back in the day, like BBC or some of the Swedish Astrid Lindgren adaptations. This film features the Eight Immortals, popular folklore figures, a group of folk trickster gods in similar veins to Anansi or and Kokopelli, or the Seven Luck Gods, which are the Japanese equivalent. Tons of stories and idioms feature them, most prominently Eight Immortals Cross the Sea, The Flying Sword 飛劍記, and Journey to the East 东游记 as well as many modern things, such as apparently the Jackie Chan Adventures cartoon. While in terms of Chinese gonzo fantasy films, it's no Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain or Encounters of the Spooky Kind, its still a cute and charming film I find, and shares some of the strengths as the prior two historical films I've subbed, no less fun and jovial as any other adaptation, and probably my personal favourite take on the Immortals of the bunch. This RAW is probably as high quality as can possibly be found, however it doesn't seem to have gone through much restoration, so that green line is just stuck permanently there unfortunately. It was either that or a version with multiple TV channel watermarks plastered over it.