To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 17 wins & 21 nominations total
Ming-Na Wen
- Mulan
- (voice)
Eddie Murphy
- Mushu
- (voice)
Miguel Ferrer
- Shan-Yu
- (voice)
Harvey Fierstein
- Yao
- (voice)
Freda Foh Shen
- Fa Li
- (voice)
June Foray
- Grandmother Fa
- (voice)
James Hong
- Chi Fu
- (voice)
Pat Morita
- The Emperor
- (voice)
Marni Nixon
- Grandmother Fa
- (singing voice)
Soon-Tek Oh
- Fa Zhou
- (voice)
Donny Osmond
- Shang
- (singing voice)
Lea Salonga
- Mulan
- (singing voice)
James Shigeta
- General Li
- (voice)
George Takei
- First Ancestor
- (voice)
Jerry Tondo
- Chien-Po
- (voice)
- (as Jerry S. Tondo)
Gedde Watanabe
- Ling
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMulan touches her hair a lot because animators noticed that Ming-Na Wen did.
- GoofsWhen Mulan reads the Final Admonition and reads some of it off her arm, it was written in simplified Chinese. However, simplified Chinese was created in the 1950s. Mulan should have used the traditional Chinese symbols.
- Quotes
Mulan: [to Shang] Would you like to stay for dinner?
Grandmother Fa: [Yelling in the background] Would you like to stay forever?
- Crazy creditsThank you to the Walt Disney Feature Animation Support Staff and our families. Your patience and dedication bring honor to us all.
- Alternate versionsIn the European version of the movie, Vanessa Mae's rendition of "Reflection" is played instead of the Christina Aguilera version in the credits.
- SoundtracksHonor to Us All
(uncredited) (1998)
Music by Matthew Wilder
Lyrics by David Zippel
Performed by Beth Fowler, Freda Foh Shen, Marni Nixon, Lea Salonga, and the Female Choir
Featured review
I have a 4.5 year old daughter who is going through the princess phase. We read lots of fairy tales etc and its very difficult to find a fairy tale where the princess is strong and resourceful. Most of the time they are pretty passive and the worst one is sleeping beauty. I find myself treading a fine line between letting her enjoy the fairy tale and occasionally commenting on the fact that perhaps some of these princesses just don't do enough to help themselves and how they can help themselves a little bit more. I don't want to destroy her pleasure in these fairy tales, after all, I loved them too. But it took me a while as adult to see how the subconscious message of helplessness in these fairy tales can reinforce the existing values of society and parents that girls are meant to be saved.
So it is a great pleasure to be able to show my daughter a story of a strong and intelligent girl - Mu Lan and its great that Mu Lan and we are both ethnically Chinese. Here is a heroine who is resourceful, uses her brains, saves the Captain and China. We draw many discussion points from the story, such as why it is that women were not allowed to join the army, the value of trying hard and training and practising hard, what is discipline and why it is needed to succeed, using your brains and thinking of how to solve a problem, not just using brute strength, etc. Even some politics - like why did the Hun king want the Emperor to bow to him and why the Emperor wouldn't bow to him but would bow to Mulan. My challenge is the explain things in a way which is both accurate and yet understandable to a 4 year old. My daughter loves the story because Mulan does a lot of "saving".
My daughter has probably watch the movie only 3 times coz I limit TV and video a lot. But she'll ask me to tell her the story in my own words, based on the video. It works out great.
The fact that the movie Mulan captivates me as an adult also helps. There's only so much I can enjoy of a barney video.
I definitely recommend this movie to parents with young girls, as a good place to start talking about being a strong and intelligent woman. Another good one is Beauty and the Beast. I've not seen Pocahontas so I can't comment on that.
So it is a great pleasure to be able to show my daughter a story of a strong and intelligent girl - Mu Lan and its great that Mu Lan and we are both ethnically Chinese. Here is a heroine who is resourceful, uses her brains, saves the Captain and China. We draw many discussion points from the story, such as why it is that women were not allowed to join the army, the value of trying hard and training and practising hard, what is discipline and why it is needed to succeed, using your brains and thinking of how to solve a problem, not just using brute strength, etc. Even some politics - like why did the Hun king want the Emperor to bow to him and why the Emperor wouldn't bow to him but would bow to Mulan. My challenge is the explain things in a way which is both accurate and yet understandable to a 4 year old. My daughter loves the story because Mulan does a lot of "saving".
My daughter has probably watch the movie only 3 times coz I limit TV and video a lot. But she'll ask me to tell her the story in my own words, based on the video. It works out great.
The fact that the movie Mulan captivates me as an adult also helps. There's only so much I can enjoy of a barney video.
I definitely recommend this movie to parents with young girls, as a good place to start talking about being a strong and intelligent woman. Another good one is Beauty and the Beast. I've not seen Pocahontas so I can't comment on that.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Mulán
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $90,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $120,620,254
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,745,143
- Jun 21, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $304,320,254
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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