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Demon-child movie wows China – and smashes global box office records
Virtually unknown in the west, Ne Zha 2 is the world’s highest-grossing animation at £1.6bn – outdoing Inside Out 2 – just weeks after its release
He is on a quest to obtain a precious elixir to restore the physical state of his friend, the dragon prince Ao Bing, whose body has been destroyed by a lightning strike. Since its release over the lunar new year holiday between the end of January and the middle of February, Ne Zha 2 has taken 14.7bn yuan (£1.6bn) at the box office, making it the best-performing film in Chinese cinema history. The writer Afra Wang explained in a recent essay for the ChinaTalk newsletter: “Having weathered the pandemic’s disruption, many ordinary Chinese seek reassurance about the future through familiar cultural frameworks.
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