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Mulan

  • 1998
  • G
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
299K
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POPULARITY
1,402
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Eddie Murphy, BD Wong, Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Fierstein, Pat Morita, George Takei, Ming-Na Wen, Julianne Buescher, June Foray, Donny Osmond, Tom Amundsen, Arminae Austen, Mary Kay Bergman, Susan Boyd, Steve Bulen, Corey Burton, Mitch Carter, Robert Clotworthy, David Cowgill, Sally Dworsky, Beth Fowler, Donald Fullilove, Jack Gilpin, James Hong, Richard Steven Horvitz, Linda Kerns, Matthew Labyorteaux, Conan Lee, Dana Lee, Miriam Margolyes, Marni Nixon, Soon-Tek Oh, Elisa Gabrielli, Lea Salonga, Freda Foh Shen, James Shigeta, Jerry Tondo, Gedde Watanabe, Frank Welker, Matthew Wilder, and Sandie Hall in Mulan (1998)
To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
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To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

  • Directors
    • Tony Bancroft
    • Barry Cook
  • Writers
    • Robert D. San Souci
    • Rita Hsiao
    • Chris Sanders
  • Stars
    • Ming-Na Wen
    • Eddie Murphy
    • BD Wong
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    299K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,402
    61
    • Directors
      • Tony Bancroft
      • Barry Cook
    • Writers
      • Robert D. San Souci
      • Rita Hsiao
      • Chris Sanders
    • Stars
      • Ming-Na Wen
      • Eddie Murphy
      • BD Wong
    • 399User reviews
    • 132Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 17 wins & 21 nominations total

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    Eddie Murphy in Mulan (1998)
    Ming-Na Wen and Miriam Margolyes in Mulan (1998)
    Eddie Murphy and Ming-Na Wen in Mulan (1998)
    Ming-Na Wen in Mulan (1998)
    Ming-Na Wen and Soon-Tek Oh in Mulan (1998)
    Eddie Murphy and Frank Welker in Mulan (1998)
    Ming-Na Wen and Frank Welker in Mulan (1998)
    Harvey Fierstein, Ming-Na Wen, and Gedde Watanabe in Mulan (1998)
    Eddie Murphy and Ming-Na Wen in Mulan (1998)
    Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo, and Gedde Watanabe in Mulan (1998)
    BD Wong and Ming-Na Wen in Mulan (1998)
    Ming-Na Wen in Mulan (1998)

    Top cast

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    Ming-Na Wen
    Ming-Na Wen
    • Mulan
    • (voice)
    Eddie Murphy
    Eddie Murphy
    • Mushu
    • (voice)
    BD Wong
    BD Wong
    • Shang
    • (voice)
    • (as B.D. Wong)
    Miguel Ferrer
    Miguel Ferrer
    • Shan-Yu
    • (voice)
    Harvey Fierstein
    Harvey Fierstein
    • Yao
    • (voice)
    Freda Foh Shen
    Freda Foh Shen
    • Fa Li
    • (voice)
    June Foray
    June Foray
    • Grandmother Fa
    • (voice)
    James Hong
    James Hong
    • Chi Fu
    • (voice)
    Miriam Margolyes
    Miriam Margolyes
    • The Matchmaker
    • (voice)
    Pat Morita
    Pat Morita
    • The Emperor
    • (voice)
    Marni Nixon
    Marni Nixon
    • Grandmother Fa
    • (singing voice)
    Soon-Tek Oh
    Soon-Tek Oh
    • Fa Zhou
    • (voice)
    Donny Osmond
    Donny Osmond
    • Shang
    • (singing voice)
    Lea Salonga
    Lea Salonga
    • Mulan
    • (singing voice)
    James Shigeta
    James Shigeta
    • General Li
    • (voice)
    George Takei
    George Takei
    • First Ancestor
    • (voice)
    Jerry Tondo
    • Chien-Po
    • (voice)
    • (as Jerry S. Tondo)
    Gedde Watanabe
    Gedde Watanabe
    • Ling
    • (voice)
    • Directors
      • Tony Bancroft
      • Barry Cook
    • Writers
      • Robert D. San Souci
      • Rita Hsiao
      • Chris Sanders
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Mulan touches her hair a lot because animators noticed that Ming-Na Wen did.
    • Goofs
      When Mulan reads the Final Admonition and reads some of it off her arm, it was written in simplified Chinese. However, simplified Chinese was created in the 1950s. Mulan should have used the traditional Chinese symbols.
    • Quotes

      Mulan: [to Shang] Would you like to stay for dinner?

      Grandmother Fa: [Yelling in the background] Would you like to stay forever?

    • Crazy credits
      Thank you to the Walt Disney Feature Animation Support Staff and our families. Your patience and dedication bring honor to us all.
    • Alternate versions
      In the European version of the movie, Vanessa Mae's rendition of "Reflection" is played instead of the Christina Aguilera version in the credits.
    • Connections
      Edited into Reflections on Ice: Michelle Kwan Skates to the Music of Disney's 'Mulan' (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Honor to Us All
      (uncredited) (1998)

      Music by Matthew Wilder

      Lyrics by David Zippel

      Performed by Beth Fowler, Freda Foh Shen, Marni Nixon, Lea Salonga, and the Female Choir

    User reviews399

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    Featured review
    9/10
    Great Movie for little girls
    I have a 4.5 year old daughter who is going through the princess phase. We read lots of fairy tales etc and its very difficult to find a fairy tale where the princess is strong and resourceful. Most of the time they are pretty passive and the worst one is sleeping beauty. I find myself treading a fine line between letting her enjoy the fairy tale and occasionally commenting on the fact that perhaps some of these princesses just don't do enough to help themselves and how they can help themselves a little bit more. I don't want to destroy her pleasure in these fairy tales, after all, I loved them too. But it took me a while as adult to see how the subconscious message of helplessness in these fairy tales can reinforce the existing values of society and parents that girls are meant to be saved.

    So it is a great pleasure to be able to show my daughter a story of a strong and intelligent girl - Mu Lan and its great that Mu Lan and we are both ethnically Chinese. Here is a heroine who is resourceful, uses her brains, saves the Captain and China. We draw many discussion points from the story, such as why it is that women were not allowed to join the army, the value of trying hard and training and practising hard, what is discipline and why it is needed to succeed, using your brains and thinking of how to solve a problem, not just using brute strength, etc. Even some politics - like why did the Hun king want the Emperor to bow to him and why the Emperor wouldn't bow to him but would bow to Mulan. My challenge is the explain things in a way which is both accurate and yet understandable to a 4 year old. My daughter loves the story because Mulan does a lot of "saving".

    My daughter has probably watch the movie only 3 times coz I limit TV and video a lot. But she'll ask me to tell her the story in my own words, based on the video. It works out great.

    The fact that the movie Mulan captivates me as an adult also helps. There's only so much I can enjoy of a barney video.

    I definitely recommend this movie to parents with young girls, as a good place to start talking about being a strong and intelligent woman. Another good one is Beauty and the Beast. I've not seen Pocahontas so I can't comment on that.
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    • Jan 8, 2006

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 19, 1998 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • Offical Disney Site
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • China Doll
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Animation Studios
      • Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
      • Walt Disney Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $90,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $120,620,254
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $22,745,143
      • Jun 21, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $304,320,254
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS

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