Reuters Posted online: Beijing, July 5: IST Saturday , July 05, 2008 at 1537 hrs More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy Kung Fu Panda has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture. The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial arts glory, was faithful to Chinese culture and laced with good humor, but China itself may have been incapable of producing such a film, a Chinese filmmaker and opera director lamented. "The film's protagonist is China's national treasure and all the elements are Chinese, but why didn't we make such a film?" Wu Jiang, president of the China National Peking Opera Company, was cited as saying by Xinhua news agency on Saturday. Lu Chuan, a young film director, applauded Kung Fu Panda...
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