Chinese writer-director Jiaozi, who also made the first film, does not spoonfeed backstory. Nor does he ground it in a framing device, such as a narrator. From the first scene, he plunges viewers ...

Directed by Yang Yu (a.k.a. Jiaozi), the film was produced by Enlight Media’s Coloroom Pictures animation subsidiary and Jiaozi’s Chengdu-based Coco Cartoon. Five years in the making ...

Jiaozi’s script is its strength; assured in its identity but universal in its concepts. Though the bonds of family, parental sacrifice and unconditional love buoy the film overall, it also ...

“I will smash your palace into pieces,” he vows to the wrongly accused dragon king. Returning director-scriptwriter Jiaozi toys at first with Venom-style body-sharing comedy before dumping it as he ...

Directed by Yang Yu (aka Jiaozi), Ne Zha 2, the Chinese juggernaut was released in North America via CMC last month to the tune of $18.5M. Pic is loosely based on a classic Chinese myth and is set ...

When asked about his favorite animated films, Yang Yu (Jiaozi), director of "Ne Zha 2" – the world's highest-grossing animated film – quickly rattles off a list: the Shanghai Animation Film Studio ...

Read on to see what we thought of this box office hit. Directed by Chinese animation director and producer Jiaozi, this movie is the sequel to 2019’s Ne Zha, which was Jiaozi’s first animated ...

Jiaozi’s directorial will soon surpass the global lifetime of Avengers: Infinity War. It has now broken a 35-year-old record in China with its staggering footfalls. Scroll below for the exciting ...

The original Ne Zha (2019), from the same writer-director, Jiaozi, cost $22 million and grossed a fairly blinding $742 million, about 99 per cent of which came from the Chinese mainland.

The animated sequel makes history as the first non-Hollywood film to surpass US$2 billion at the box office. Read more at straitstimes.com.