{"id":156143,"date":"2026-08-16T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156143"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:02:23","slug":"how-a-rough-and-crude-chinese-cartoon-ox-went-from-box-office-zero-to-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156143","title":{"rendered":"How a \u2018rough\u2019 and \u2018crude\u2019 Chinese cartoon ox went from box office zero to hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA raw, handcrafted Chinese animation has become an unlikely box-office sensation despite being widely panned by critics and social media users.<br \/>\nNiu Lai, or The Arrival of the Ox, has been criticised for its \u201crough\u201d and \u201cbroken\u201d style and a plot that many viewers found hard to follow.<br \/>\nBut the film has generated some of the loudest online discussion in recent days, despite the competition from two Hollywood blockbusters: Christopher Nolan\u2019s epic version of The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3364211\/how-rough-and-crude-chinese-cartoon-ox-went-box-office-zero-hero?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA raw, handcrafted Chinese animation has become an unlikely box-office sensation despite being widely panned by critics and social media users. Niu Lai, or&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}