🔥 Trending "Niu Lai": The Animated Film Taking China by Storm

"Niu Lai" (also translated as "The Ox Comes") is a Chinese animated film that gained significant internet attention and became a box office hit despite, or perhaps because of, its widely criticized animation quality and confusing plot ³¹⁰. The film's concept was developed by Xin Yumeng in 2021, who chose an ox as the central theme because his father was born in the Year of the Ox, which was also 2021 ⁴. Production of the movie reportedly took over five years and cost a few thousand renminbi ⁴. Its "laughable animation quality" and "confusing plot" have garnered it ironic fans and even led to it being embraced as an "anti-AI phenomenon" ³¹⁰. The film was released in 2019 and has a runtime of 92 minutes ⁶.