2024 · animation · family · action
Dragonkeeper
Directed by Jian-Ping Li1h 39m2024
Set in Han Imperial China, the plot follows the adventures of enslaved girl Ping with ancient dragon Long Danzi. Dragons had been banished from the kingdom. Ping, an orphan, finds one of the last remaining dragon eggs. Palace guards force Ping to run away in order to return the dragon egg to the ocean and save all dragons from extinction. Ping discovers that she is a true Dragonkeeper.
Our read: Dragonkeeper (2024) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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