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Little Door Gods (2016)

Little Door Gods poster
Original title
小门神
Directed by
Gary Wang, Paulette Victor-Lifton
Genre
animation, family, fantasy
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 153 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two Chinese door gods get worried about losing their jobs in the modern world. They go to the human world and cause trouble that must be fixed.

whimsicallightheartedfast-pacedcolorfulspiritedplayfulupliftingadventurous

What happens

Little Door Gods (simplified Chinese: 小门神; traditional Chinese: 小門神), also known as Door Guardians, or The Guardian Brothers in the US, is a 2016 Chinese animated fantasy comedy film directed and written by Gary Wang, produced by Light Chaser Animation Studios and distributed by Alibaba Pictures. It was originally released in China on January 1, 2016 in the Peachtopia trilogy Tea Pets (2017) and Cats and Peachtopia (2018). An English-language version that is 20 minutes shorter premiered on Netflix on September 1, 2017. It is the last film to be fully co-produced by The Weinstein Company, following a series of sexual assault cases against its founder, Harvey Weinstein and is also the last film to be re-edited by Harvey Weinstein. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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