The background music of Westward Journey includes "Reed Marsh", "Love of Life", "Floating Dust (Heaven and Earth of Life)", "Knife Club Overture", "Chasing the Moon", "Unfinished Love" ”, “ONLY YOU”.

The opening songs are "Reed Marsh" and "Floating Dust (The Heaven and Earth of Life)", "The Love of a Lifetime" is the ending song, and the other four are interludes.

1. "The Love of My Life" is a song written by Tang Shuchen and composed and sung by Lu Guanting. It was composed as the ending theme of Stephen Chow's classic movie "The Marriage of the Monkey King". The song describes the growth of a boy into a The man's process expresses a deep lovesickness that is both helpless and sad.

2. The song "Chasing the Moon" is an episode of the 1995 Hong Kong movie "The Great Sage's Marriage", written by Tang Shuchen, composed by Hou Xiang, and sung by Zhu Yin.

3. "Unfinished Love" is an episode of the 1995 Hong Kong movie "Westward Journey: Moonlight Treasure Box/Cinderella", written by Tang Shuchen, composed by He Luting, and sung by Karen Mok. The song was arranged by Lu Guanting, a famous Hong Kong film music composer, actor and singer.

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Production and distribution

The two films "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "The Marriage of the Monkey King" from "Westward Journey" were originally planned It is a complete film, but in the end the development of the plot exceeded Liu Zhenwei's estimation. One film could no longer contain these fantastic ideas, so the plan had to be changed and split into two. After the film was basically completed, interior shooting and editing were completed in less than two months.

"Westward Journey" *** invested more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and Stephen Chow is also one of the investors. In order to match the schedule of Lunar New Year films, "Moonlight Box" was first released in January 1995. The box office was once a hit. In two days, the total box office revenue of 60 cinemas in Hong Kong was more than HK$5 million, which was slightly lower than Jackie Chan's "Red Star". district". In the same year, "Westward Journey" was released in Shanghai, and later in the three northeastern provinces. The box office situation was also very good for a time.

The "good start" did not last long, and then the overall distribution took a turn for the worse. Even in the Hong Kong market, which was the hottest at the time, it finally ended with 25 million. "The Marriage of the Great Sage" was released more than a month later. "The final box office was only 29 million. Although it was able to recover the cost, it was far behind Stephen Chow's previous films.

In Beijing, "Westward Journey" was regarded as a case of failure in distribution. "Moonlight Box" was launched as a winter holiday film in February 1996, and "The Marriage of the Monkey King" was released in May. Both films only It ended with a box office of about 200,000 yuan. Some film companies decided to replace "Westward Journey" with a domestic film after two days of screening to avoid further losses.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Westward Journey