Ne Zha (哪吒之魔童降世)

Before its 2025 sequel topped $2.2 billion, Jiaozi's 2019 debut feature Ne Zha grossed $742,718,496 worldwide (CN¥5.035 billion) on a $22 million budget. Released on July 26, 2019 after IMAX previews, the 110-minute animated adventure reimagines the mythological hero as a misunderstood boy born of a Demon Orb who chooses his own fate. Involving over 1,600 animators across more than 20 Chinese visual-effects studios, Ne Zha sold roughly 140 million tickets in China and opened to $91.5 million. It overtook Spirited Away as the highest-grossing non-English animated film at the time and became China's first animated submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, earning an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score and an 8.4 rating on Douban from Chinese audiences.