Jordan Cole

Ne Zha, to rhyme with Treasure, is a landmark piece of Chinese animation, the first from that country in IMAX, made by debut feature director Jiaozi in his own studio, using voice talent that no one had ever heard of. There is more back story to Jiaozi – a nickname, real name is Yang Yu – enough for a hundred magazine rags-to-riches feature pieces. Suffice to say he went from living with his widowed mother on her pension to making the highest-grossing film in mainland China in 2019 via a couple of shorts not many people ever saw, then followed up with a sequel, Ne Zha 2, which also broke records. The nickname, … Read more