A young boy is born as the reincarnation of a demonic power, into a society that hates and fears him. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, Nezha must choose between good and evil to see if he can change his fate.
Directed by Jiao Zi
fight
magic
dragon
demon
dark fantasy
based on myths, legends or folklore
3d animation
nezha
donghua
Rank
#106 in 2019·#3877 overall
Trailer
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.5 / 5
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Cast
Lu Yanting
Young Nezha (voice)
Joseph
Youth Nezha (voice)
Han Mo
Ao Bing (voice)
Chen Hao
Li Jing (voice)
Lu Qi
Lady Yin (voice)
Zhang Jiaming
Master Taiyi (voice)
Yang Wei
Shen Gongbao (voice)
He Yuxiang
Yuanshi Tianzun / Boundary Beast (voice)
Ren Junpeng
Haiyasha (voice)
Da Hai
Amblyopia Old Man / Purple Dragon / News Guard (voice)
Yu Chen
Mr. Selling Words / Male Neighborhood / Red Dragon (voice)
Liu Linzhu
The Midwife / Matchmaker (voice)
Crew
Jiao Zi
Director
Jiao Zi
Screenplay
Wan Pin-Chu
Original Music Composer
Wei Yunyun
Producer
Liu Wenzhang
Producer
Jiao Zi
Producer
Wang Changtian
Producer
Wei Yunyun
Story
Popular Reviews
625 reviews
Tahj Ladson
9.6★ · 04/26/25
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vfrancesco
10.0★ · 05/10/26
GOATED CARTOON YALL SHOULD WATCH THIS
GOATED CARTOON YALL SHOULD WATCH THIS
Kam
6.0★ · 04/14/26
Interesting in the story but a bit overlong.
Interesting in the story but a bit overlong.
Gregory
6.0★ · 04/13/26
Nothing special
Nothing special
Jamie Millard
4.0★ · 04/05/26
I can forgive the awful dialogue and shit jokes because I imagine there's alot lost in translation but the disjointed scenes are off-putting. Most of the praise I've seen from this comes from the "stunning" animation which is really hit or miss throughout the movie. Crazy to think this was the first Chinese movie to make it to imax. On a positive the fight scenes were great with really good choreography making the second half considerably better than the first and I would've given this a 3/10 if not for the final fight which was well done. Ultimately I don't understand how this launched the most successful animated film of all time and hopefully that sequel makes this worth the watch - I'm expecting much greater things to come.
I can forgive the awful dialogue and shit jokes because I imagine there's alot lost in translation but the disjointed scenes are off-putting. Most of the praise I've seen from this comes from the "stunning" animation which is really hit or miss throughout the movie. Crazy to think this was the first Chinese movie to make it to imax. On a positive the fight scenes were great with really good choreography making the second half considerably better than the first and I would've given this a 3/10 if not for the final fight which was well done. Ultimately I don't understand how this launched the most successful animated film of all time and hopefully that sequel makes this worth the watch - I'm expecting much greater things to come.
