How actor Yao infused Asian cultural icons like Sun Wukong into Sinners and navigated playing a grocer who finds his place between worlds in Ryan Coogler's supernatural thriller Sinners, set in the ...

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Yet in January 2025, an animated Chinese feature film, “Ne Zha 2,” smashed box-office records. The movie, a dazzling ...

Beijing lost no time in co-opting “Ne Zha 2” as a symbol of China’s creative rise and cultural “soft power moment.” State ...

including the heroic Monkey King — as his favorite drama, he told China Daily that he has watched it multiple times and even revisited it after beginning to learn Chinese. "I used the drama to ...

The Monkey King is Netflix’s big animated movie of the season, and it takes a very famous Chinese novel and adds new life to it. Jimmy O. Yang stars as Monkey, the brash young monkey who defies ...

and inevitably led to his appearance in several other Chinese cartoons, from the semi-sequel MONKEY CONQUERS THE DEMON, to less accomplished cameos in LOTUS LANTERN and DINGDING VS THE MONKEY KING.

Togo Animation Studio and OLM bring Natsu Hyuga and Touko Shino’s Chinese-inspired light novel ... whoever finds it to become the new Pirate King. Monkey’s elastic body gives him an edge ...

An amazing original musical for the whole family, The Monkey King is based on the legendary mythical figure from the beloved 16th-century Chinese novel “Journey to the West,” by Wu Cheng’en.