Mulan is a 1998
American animated feature film produced by
Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by
Walt Disney Pictures on June 19, 1998. The thirty-sixth
animated feature in the
Walt Disney Animated Classics, and a part of the
Disney Renaissance, the film is based on the Chinese
legend of
Hua Mulan,
and was the first of three produced primarily at the animation studio at
Disney-MGM Studios in
Orlando, Florida.
It was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, with the story by Robert D. San Souci and Rita Hsiao, among others.
Plot
The film opens when the
Huns, led by the ruthless
Shan Yu (
Miguel Ferrer), invade China. The Chinese emperor commands a general mobilization in which each family is given a
conscription notice.