Mulan (1998)
1998 animated film directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft
- Released
- 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
- Screenplay
- Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer
- Producer
- Pam Coats
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith, Matthew Wilder
- Editing
- Michael Kelly, James Melton
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Production company
- Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Distributor
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney+, Netflix
- Box office
- $304.3 million
- Budget
- $90 million
- Based on
- Mulan
- Set in
- China
Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age action-adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. The film was directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft and produced by Pam Coats, from a screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, and the writing team of Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and a story by Robert D. San Souci. It features five original songs that were written by singer-composer Matthew Wilder and lyricist David Zippel, and an original musical orchestral score composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, Miguel Ferrer, and BD Wong star in the English version as Mulan, Mushu, Shan Yu, and Captain Li Shang, respectively, while Jackie Chan provided the voice of Li Shang for the Chinese dubs of the film. The film's plot takes place in China during an unspecified Imperial dynasty, where Fa Mulan, daughter of aged warrior Fa Zhou, impersonates a man to take her father's place during a general conscription to counter a Hun (Xiongnu) invasion.
Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Series
- Followed by: Mulan II
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.