Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
2019 1h 49m movie Film China

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

ལུང་ནག་ན

“Find what you seek in a place you never expected”

Synopsis

ལུང་ནག་ན

“Find what you seek in a place you never expected”

A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

The 2018–2020 China Window

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom holds position #69 of 219 China films in the 2018–2020 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

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    #1

    The Untamed: Special Edition

    ★ 9.5 · 2019
  2. Swallowed Star
    #2

    Swallowed Star

    ★ 9.2 · 2020
  3. Ling Cage: Incarnation
    #3

    Ling Cage: Incarnation

    ★ 9.0 · 2019
  4. Once Upon a Bite
    #4

    Once Upon a Bite

    ★ 9.0 · 2018
  5. All Is Well
    #5

    All Is Well

    ★ 9.0 · 2019
  6. A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality
    #6

    A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality

    ★ 8.9 · 2020
  7. LEGO Monkie Kid
    #7

    LEGO Monkie Kid

    ★ 8.8 · 2020
  8. The Long Night
    #8

    The Long Night

    ★ 8.7 · 2020

The 2010s China Landscape

2019 was the decade’s peak output year for China — 86 titles released, including Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Bars below show how the 2010s stacked up year by year (515 total).

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 85 other China films in 2019.

The 720th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).

Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).

Audience Engagement

139
Reviews
81st
Review-volume percentile
65th
Popularity percentile

139 audience reviews — more than 81% of China films in our index.

Review volume (81th percentile) outruns trending popularity (65th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • remote village · 2
  • bhutan · 1
  • rural life · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • teacher · 26
  • rural area · 26
  • countryside · 11
  • himalaya mountain range · 6

Reception Benchmarks

7.4
TMDB Rating
139
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #212 of 946 China films indexed here (78th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.7 points above the China average of 6.7/10.

Among China Drama productions specifically: #132 of 547 (top 24%).

Production Details

Primary CountryChina
All Production CountriesBhutan, China
Original LanguageDz
Spoken LanguagesDzongkha, English
Production CompaniesDangphu Dingphu: a 3 Pigs Production, Huanxi Media Group
Runtime1h 49m
Release DateNovember 16, 2019
IMDbtt10189300