Top 10 Top 10 Chinese Movies
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1. Beijing Bicycle
(Wang Xiaoshuai; 2001) A young bike messenger has his ride stolen and attempts to get it back.
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2. Spring in a Small Town
(Fei Mu; 1948) A man returns home to find his childhood sweetheart married. Voted best Chinese film of all time.
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3. Yellow Earth
(Chen Kaige; 1984) A Red Army soldier is posted to a desolate province to collect folk songs and finds misery.
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4. Platform
(Jia Zhangke; 2000) Epic account of the changes in China’s pop culture during the 1980s.
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5. To Live
(Zhang Yimou; 1994) Tragedy and black humor in the tale of one family from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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6. A Touch of Zen
(King Hu; 1969), Sword-play films, have been popular in China since the 1920s, but this revitalized the genre.
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7. Raise the Red Lantern
(Zhang Yimou; 1991) Intrigue between the multiple wives of a wealthy overlord.
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8. Farewell My Concubine
(Chen Kaige; 1993) The film that really put Chinese cinema back on the map.
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9. Hero
(Zhang Yimou; 2002) Martial arts waltz that to date is the most successful film ever made in China.
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10. Peacock
(Gu Changwei; 2005) The tribulations of a working-class family in a small rural town.
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