Mulan is a 1998 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation,and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 19, thirty-sixth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics,and a part of the Disney Renaissance,the film is based on the Chinese legend of Hua was the first of three features produced primarily at the Disney animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook,with story and screenplay by Robert Souci,Rita Hsiao,Philip LaZebnik,Chris Sanders,Eugenia Bostwick-Singer,and Raymond for the film began in 1994,when a number of artistic supervisors were sent to China to receive artistic and cultural was well-received by critics and the public,grossing $304 million,earning Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations,and winning several Annie Awards including Best Animated Mulan is the only daughter of aged warrior Fa impersonates a man and takes her father's place during a general conscription to counter a fictitious Hun invasion led by Shan Yu .Along with her guardian dragon Mushu ,her captain,Li Shang ,a lucky cricket,"Cri-kee," and her companions,Yao,Ling,and Chien-Po,she battles the invading Hun army