Mulan is a 1998 English-language Animation Adventure motion picture written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Robert D. San Souci, Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip Lazebnik, Raymond Singer, Eugenia Bostwick-singer, Dean Deblois, John Sanford, Chris Williams, Tim Hodge, Julius Aguimatang, Burny Mattinson, Lorna Cook, Barry Johnson, Thom Enriquez, Ed Gombert, Joe Grant, Floyd Norman, Linda Woolverton, Jodi Ann Johnson, Alan Ormsby, David Reynolds, Don Dougherty, Jorgen Klubien, Denis Rich, Joe Ekers, Theodore Newton, Larry Scholl, Daan Jippes, Frank Nissen, Jeff Snow and Anonymous. The movie is directed by Niki Caro, Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook and produced by Chris Bender and Pam Coats under the banner of Walt Disney Pictures in collaboration with Walt Disney Feature Animation. To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Mulan stars Ming-na Wen in the title role along with an ensemble cast including Eddie Murphy, Bd Wong, Miguel Ferrer, June Foray, James Hong and Pat Morita. The screenplay is written by Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer and Raymond Singer which is inspired from Ballad of Mulan by Guo Maoqian. The music was composed by Harry Gregson-williams along with Jerry Goldsmith. Editing was done by Michael Kelly. The movie has a running time of 87 minutes. It was released on 18th June 1998. The Film was successful at box office. Mulan was made on a budget of $90 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $304 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Buena Vista Pictures.