The Tribulation of the Mountain God: English Subtitles Available

[douqi]

I've subtitled The Tribulation of the Mountain God, an 11-minute extra for Led Astray by Love, which can be viewed here (via Captionfy). This originally aired as pay-to-view content on the Kuaishou platform. The video is hosted on the YouTube channel KwaiDrama, which seems to have been scooping up YouTube licences for a whole load of mini-dramas that initially aired on the Kuaishou platform. All the sound on their videos is wonky (including this one), because they've muted out most of the copyright-protected music, presumably so that they can monetise it.

Some content notes: the characters An Qi and Ren Qiuping are coded as belonging to a non-Han minority ethnic group, and An Qi is played by a Han actress (the actor playing Ren Qiuping is probably also Han, but I haven't looked into him). There is a lack of specificity about precisely which minority ethnic group they supposedly belong to, which is problematic in the way Western productions coding a character as 'vaguely Asian' would be. It's also possible to read the film as being somewhat disparaging of minority ethnic 'superstitions', though I don't think that is a particularly strong element.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

Thank you for subtitling this!

[douqi]

<3

Next up: yet another Sheng Wei/Ai Ye one!