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.

• Shanghai Film Studio
• Yuwen Cui
• Hua Meng
• Yiu Ping
• Ping Fan
• Wai To-Ming