Chinese Showbiz: An Animation Director

The good news: I'm reborn as a top student in the directing program at Beijing Film Academy! The bad news: My mentor sets me up from the start, ending my directing career before it can even begin! The good news: The animated film market is wide open! And so, among a sea of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Boonie Bears animated films, Monkey King: Hero Is Back bursts onto the scene. Then Big Fish & Begonia, Jiang Ziya, Chang'an San Wan Li... keep changing people's understanding of animation. Then Ne Zha breaks ten billion at the box office, goes international, and dominates global ticket sales. Directors, actors, and investors are all stunned. Are you kidding? Animated films can make that much money? Zhang Yimou: “What Ne Zha? Is one movie like this worth more than everything I've made in my whole life?” Chen Sicheng: “Wait, how many Detective Chinatown movies would I have to make to match that?” Nazha: “Still eating? I'll take you all on!” Liu Yifei: “Prejudice in people's hearts is like a great mountain.” Dilraba: “The thunder is rumbling, I'm so scared! It's striking me to bits...”