Film
Big Fish and Begonia
- Director
- Liang Xuan, Chun Zhang
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 106 mins
Ten years in the making, this Chinese animated fantasy epic is inspired by a myth from the ancient Chinese Taoist classic Zhuangzi, but also incorporates elements from other Chinese fables such as The Classic of Mountains and In Search of the Supernatural. A huge box office hit back home, it’s been hailed as marking the dawn of the Chinese animation industry.
https://youtu.be/5TgxS_BMu7w
Here’s the official synopsis: “In a world within our world, yet unseen by any human, the beings there control time and tide and the changing of the seasons. On the day Chun turns sixteen, she is transformed into a dolphin to explore the human world. She is rescued from a vortex by a human boy at the cost of his own life. Chun is so moved by the boy’s kindness and courage that she decides to give him life again. But to do this, she must protect the boy’s soul, a tiny fish, and nurture it to grow. Through adventure and sacrifice, love grows, yet now she must release him back to the sea, back to life in the human world.”
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