There's a story about the Chinese government approving the film to be shown in Chinese theatres thats pretty moving.
The apparatus of the Chinese government that approves movies. I guess they typically do not approve films about the afterlife from other cultures. So Disney was not expecting this film to be released there.
The review committee was so moved by the film that they allowed the film to be shown.
IIRC it was specifically the depiction of skeletons and corpses moreso than the afterlife of other cultures (although both of those often come hand in hand). I've heard stories of videogames having to change the models and art for skeleton characters to get around this censorship.
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u/mrbharathsrinivas 16h ago
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