I Am What I Am (2021)

Original title

雄狮少年

Directed by

Sun Haipeng

Genre

comedy drama

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A left-behind teenager in a remote village teams up with his two best friends to form a lion dancing team. They train hard and eventually compete in a lion dancing competition.

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What happens

I Am What I Am (simplified Chinese: 雄狮少年; traditional Chinese: 雄獅少年; pinyin: Xióngshī Shàonián; Jyutping: Hung4si1 Siu3nin4; lit. 'Male lion boy') is a 2021 Chinese animated comedy-drama film directed by Sun Haipeng and distributed by Beijing Splendid Culture & Entertainment Co., Ltd. The film tells the story of Gyun, a left-behind teenager in a remote village, who forms a lion dancing team with his best friends, Mao and Gou, and eventually wins a lion dancing competition. The film was released in China on December 17, 2021 with a positive word-of-mouth, but suffered from controversy among Chinese netizens due to the style of the character designs, which affected the box office. A sequel, I Am What I Am 2, was released in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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