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The next Mulan movie wouldn't show up until 1964 when Shaw Brothers produced Lady General Hua Mulan, which remade this story as a Peking Opera, effectively making it the first Mulan musical before the 1998 Disney cartoon. Mulan Joins the Army is currently in the public domain and has been posted on YouTube The Modern Chinese[...]

Leave it to the movies to insist on a love interest in the story of Mulan. The next movie was the Shaw Brothers' 1964 Chinese Opera version Lady General Hua Mulan, which served as a lavish, all-singing call for unity in Hong Kong during a time when labour protests and civil unrest created an air of[...]