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The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 11 nominations
- Directors
- Writers
- Maoqian Guo(uncredited)
- Jingle Ma
- Ting Zhang
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaZhao Wei was cast by director Jingle Ma as Hua Mulan over actresses Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, and Liu Yifei, who were all considered for the role. Yifei would go on to play the same character in Disney's live action remake Mulan (2020).
- Quotes
Hua Mulan: Someone once said, go too far from home and you will lose your roots. Kill too many people and you will forget yourself. If you die in battle, your life will sink into the ground like rain and vanish without a trace. If at that time, you fall in love with someone, hope will blossom again from the earth and embrace life with passion. Wentai, thank you.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Movie Friends - Eine Videothek stellt sich vor (2013)
Featured review
Not the Disney Pap
This is a real film, don't think this is a family fun movie, like the Disney Mulan, this is an adult, grown up War Action Romantic Drama, Chinese style, and its very very good. Heavy on the War Action, Heavy on the Romantic Drama, A stunning movie.
It is a very beautiful film, very good photography, good costumes, and it really looks like its ancient time period, the battle scenes are great, the action scenes very good and all the acting is spot on, no slacking here. I am not keen on the romantic angle, but it is very well done in this, no sex scenes either, showing that for true romanticism you don't need to show naked bodies writhing together and that it is better without that sort of thing.
I have watched a good few Chinese films and most are great, they really do know how to make a good realistic film without cutting corners or going cap in hand to the financial sharks.
The nearest western equivalent of this film is probably Spartacus and it is as good as that. Put it on your Bucket List, watch this before you die.
It is a very beautiful film, very good photography, good costumes, and it really looks like its ancient time period, the battle scenes are great, the action scenes very good and all the acting is spot on, no slacking here. I am not keen on the romantic angle, but it is very well done in this, no sex scenes either, showing that for true romanticism you don't need to show naked bodies writhing together and that it is better without that sort of thing.
I have watched a good few Chinese films and most are great, they really do know how to make a good realistic film without cutting corners or going cap in hand to the financial sharks.
The nearest western equivalent of this film is probably Spartacus and it is as good as that. Put it on your Bucket List, watch this before you die.
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- michaelarmer
- Jan 22, 2020
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- Mulan
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,898,166
- Runtime1 hour 54 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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