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Korean Animation
In 2112 AD, on a future Earth transformed by cataclysmic earthquakes and
tidal waves, the continents are sunk under the sea and remnants of land
barely sustain scattered civilizations. The film opens on isolated Candlestick
Island, the remains of an immense skyscraper. Here a small, close-knit
community provides a home for a rambunctious pre-adolescent, boy
Mangchi, who yearns to discover the world beyond his isolated enclave.
The orphaned Mangchi enjoys the loving care of his wise and spry
grandfather who is training Mangchi in the mystical art of the Great Echo, a
concentration of all of one"s energy into a single all-powerful force to ward
off evil and enemy attacks. One day, a small plane carrying the teen-aged
Princess Poplar crashes into Candlestick Island pursued by the soldiers of
the treacherous General Moonk. Mangchi makes a daring rescue on his
trademark vehicle cleverly conceived, solar-powered, flying tricycle ?and the
two set off on a boisterous adventure involving (with no shortage of comic
relief) a treasure of lost gold, a greedy bandit chief, the villainous Moonk,
and an all-powerful crystal