Although at times it’s difficult to see the movie for anything beyond what is glaringly missing in comparison to the animated version, Mulan does a remarkably good job of blazing its own trail. This new story of Mulan is faced with the same challenge all retellings of well-known pieces of media experience: it must strive to have the traits which captured so many fans in the original animated film, while also carving out its own, unique path alongside it. In the dead of night, she sets silk aside for iron and rides off to war with her father’s set of armor, his horse and his gleaming sword, posing as a man. With the fragile state that he is in, Mulan realizes that her father has little chance of returning from the battlefield.

When the emperor of China rules that every household must volunteer one man to fight against the Rouran army led by the fierce Bori Khan (Jason Scott Lee), Mulan’s elderly father Hua Zhou (Tzi Ma) is forced to volunteer his service to the military, as he is the only man in his family.

An energetic, adventurous young woman, Mulan lives in a small rural village in China during the Northern and Southern dynasty.

Who is that girl I see? In a 2020 live-action remake of the beloved 1998 animated film, actress Liu Yifei stars as the titular Mulan.

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