Rusheng Lou is highlighted in the Chinese animated film Big Fish and Begonia. [Photo by Li Jing / chinadaily.com.cn] The tulou in Fujian were constructed by the Hakka people, a sub-group of the ...

The animation by Chinese director Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun Big Fish and Begonia won the first prize of the full-length film category of the 15th Anilogue International Animation Festival here on ...

Read More: ‘Big Fish & Begonia’ Review ... Meanwhile, the fantasy world is based on actual tulou housing complexes — earthen communal residences — of the Hakka culture in South China.

Upon the 2016 release of 'Big Fish & Begonia' on home turf, this debut feature became China's second-highest-grossing locally produced animated feature of all time. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy ...

This marvelous and mind-blowing animated feature surpasses anything cartoon China has produced before in terms of sheer beauty, even as it defies interpretation. In the history of Chinese ...

For even by Eastern standards, Big Fish and Begonia is way out there. In the most simple terms we can muster, Big Fish is the story of Chun, a young girl coming of age in a mystical world that ...

Chinese animation makes a confident play for art and relevance with “Big Fish & Begonia,” a swell of myth, nature, adolescent turbulence and fantasy intrigue that impresses more often than it ...

But there's always room for beautiful weirdness, and Big Fish and Begonia has that in abundance. Animated films from China are fairly rare, but BF&B has been a big hit in its home country by ...

The animated fantasy Big Fish & Begonia offers a bombardment of colour and surrealism right from the beginning: shoals of fish swim through the sky; babies hatch from gelatinous pods at the bottom ...

“Big Fish & Begonia” is like “Free Willy,” only except for this image it’s not at all like “Free Willy.” (Shout! Studios) “Big Fish & Begonia” “Big Fish & Begonia” is like ...

The tale first took form in a short flash animation, also titled Big Fish & Begonia, created in May 2004; after an enthusiastic reception, Liang and Zhang decided to develop the idea into a ...