Big Fish & Begonia
60th of 216 in Chinese Cinema
- Out-grossed 55% of Chinese Cinema releases with reported figures ($85M).
- Returned 18.7× its budget, against an industry median of 3.9×.
- Momentum in the 42nd percentile.
- Audience rating 7.3 from 502 votes, the 87th percentile.
- Cost
- $5M
- Took
- $85M
Against a Chinese Cinema median of 3.9×, so this one returned 4.8 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
Beyond the human realm, there is a magical race of beings who control the tides and the changing of the seasons. One of these beings, a young girl named Chun, seeks something more—she wants to experience the human world! At sixteen, she finally gets her chance and transforms into a dolphin in order to explore the world that has her fascinated. But she soon discovers that it's a dangerous place and nearly gets killed in a vortex. Luckily, her life is spared when a young boy sacrifices himself to save her. Moved by his kindness and courage, she uses magic to bring him back to life only to learn that this power comes at a serious price. On a new adventure, she’ll have to make her own sacrifices in order to protect his soul until it is ready to return to the human world.
- Released
- 8 July 2016
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Language
- Mandarin
- Industry
- Chinese Cinema
- Ji GuanlinChun (voice)
- Pan ShulanOld Chun (voice)
- Su ShangqingQiu (voice)
- Timmy XuKun (voice)
- King Shih-ChiehLing Po (voice)
- Jiu'erKun's Sister (voice)
- Director
- Liang Xuan, Zhang Chun
- Writer
- Liang Xuan
- Original Music Composer
- Kiyoshi Yoshida
- Producer
- Zhang Chun, Wang Changtian, Liang Xuan