{"id":62963,"date":"2024-03-31T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/31\/knockout-success-of-yolo-the-feelgood-female-boxing-movie-from-china"},"modified":"2024-03-31T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T07:00:34","slug":"knockout-success-of-yolo-the-feelgood-female-boxing-movie-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62963","title":{"rendered":"Knockout success of Yolo \u2013 the feelgood female boxing movie from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director and star Jia Ling \u2013 who reportedly lost 50kg to make comedy that rivals Dune 2 at box office \u2013 insists \u2018it\u2019s not a diet movie, not even about boxing\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a country where cinemas are normally dominated by wolf warrior blockbusters or nationalist historical epics, the surprise hit of China\u2019s box office in 2024 is a feelgood comedy about a woman who transforms her lacklustre life \u2013 and herself \u2013 through boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Released for the lunar new year holiday on 10 February, Yolo (You Only Live Once) has become the highest grossing film of the year in China, earning more than 3.4bn yuan (\u00a3375m) in less than two months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zgdypw.cn\/\">according to<\/a> the China Movie Information Network. Globally, it is second only to Dune 2.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/31\/knockout-success-of-yolo-the-feelgood-female-boxing-movie-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director and star Jia Ling \u2013 who reportedly lost 50kg to make comedy that rivals Dune 2 at box office \u2013 insists \u2018it\u2019s not a diet movie, not even about boxing\u2019In a country where cinemas are normally dominated by wolf warrior blockbusters or nationalist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,69,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-film","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62964,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62963\/revisions\/62964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}