Passes the Bechdel test

Mulan

Name: Mulan
Released: 1998

1998. Directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, written by Robert D. San Souci and Rita Hsiao and Chris Sanders.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

Yes 1. At least two women
19 women characters. 3 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
In 1 scene out of 1.
Yes 3. About something besides a man
In that scene, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3, though someone marked that rating as dubious.

The film

A young female decides to fill in for her family in the army to help fight off the enemies and save the country. Along the way, she does her best to fit in. She learns new things that could help save her country and learns new things about herself as a person.

Released: 19 Jun 1998
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Rated: G
IMDb: 7.7 / 10
Metascore: 72 / 100
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 21 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Mushu 53 lines, man
Mulan 49 lines, woman
Shang 30 lines, man
Chi Fu 17 lines, man
Yao 16 lines, man
Fa Zhou 12 lines, man
Ling 11 lines, man
Emperor 9 lines, man
General Li 6 lines, man
Grandma Fa 5 lines, woman

Full cast, 54 people

Ming-Na Wen as Mulan (voice)
Eddie Murphy as Mushu (voice)
BD Wong as Shang (voice)
Miguel Ferrer as Shan-Yu (voice)
Harvey Fierstein as Yao (voice)
Freda Foh Shen as Fa Li (voice)
June Foray as Grandmother Fa (voice)
James Hong as Chi Fu (voice)
Miriam Margolyes as The Matchmaker (voice)
Pat Morita as The Emperor (voice)
Marni Nixon as Grandmother Fa (singing voice)
Soon-Tek Oh as Fa Zhou (voice)
Donny Osmond as Shang (singing voice)
Lea Salonga as Mulan (singing voice)
James Shigeta as General Li (voice)
George Takei as First Ancestor (voice)
Jerry Tondo as Chien-Po (voice)
Gedde Watanabe as Ling (voice)
Frank Welker as Khan / Additional Voices (voice)
Matthew Wilder as Ling (singing voice)
Tom Amundsen as Additional Voices (voice)
Arminae Austen as Additional Voices (voice)
Mary Kay Bergman as Additional Voices (voice)
Susan Boyd as Additional Voices (voice)
Julianne Buescher as Additional Voices (singing voice)
Steve Bulen as Additional Voices (voice)
Corey Burton as Additional Voices (voice)
Mitch Carter as Additional Voices (voice)
Robert Clotworthy as Additional Voices (voice)
David Cowgill as Additional Voices (voice)
Sally Dworsky as Additional Voices (voice)
Beth Fowler as Additional Voices (voice)
Donald Fullilove as Additional Voices (voice)
Elisa Gabrielli as Additional Voices (voice)
Jack Gilpin as Additional Voices (voice)
Sandie Hall as Additional Voices (voice)
Richard Steven Horvitz as Additional Voices (voice)
Linda Kerns as Additional Voices (voice)
Matthew Labyorteaux as Additional Voices (voice)
Conan Lee as Additional Voices (voice)
Dana Lee as Additional Voices (voice)
Edie Lehmann Boddicker as Additional Voices (voice)
Luisa Leschin as Additional Voices (voice)
Christina Ma as Additional Voices (voice)
Susan McBride as Additional Voices (voice)
Haunani Minn as Additional Voices (voice)
Edie Mirman as Additional Voices (voice)
Mark Moseley as Additional Voices (voice)
Patrick Pinney as Additional Voices (voice)
Peter Renaday as Additional Voices (voice)
Maurita L. Thornburgh as Additional Voices (voice)
John Walcutt as Additional Voices (voice)
Claudette Wells as Additional Voices (voice)
Justin Shenkarow as Hun (voice) (uncredited)

Who talks, scene by scene

We couldn't read who says what in this film's script, so there's no dialogue chart for it yet.

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.

MULAN: What is it? FA LI: Mulan, stay inside.

MULAN: I've missed you too Baba. GRANDMA FA: Great, she brings home a sword. If you ask me she should have brought home a GRANDMA FA: Woo, sign me up for the next war. MULAN: Would you like to stay for dinner?

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 28 are women's.

62 lines from women, 162 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

19 women and 31 men in the cast. 3 women and 9 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 8 of 228. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 38 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 24% of the words (587), men 76% (1,877). Women have 28% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit F: behind the camera

5 of the 27 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 16% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Tony Bancroft (man), Barry Cook (man)
Written by: Raymond Singer (man), Chris Sanders (man), Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (woman), Rita Hsiao (woman), Philip LaZebnik (man)
Story by: David Reynolds (man), Barry Johnson (man), Chris Williams (man), Burny Mattinson (man), John Sanford (man), Ed Gombert (man) and 8 more
Produced by: Pam Coats (woman), Bruce Seifert (gender not listed)
Edited by: Michael Kelly (man)
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith (man)
Production design by: Hans Bacher (man)
Cast by: Ruth Lambert (woman)