1962

Nie Er

8/1

Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, t...

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Nie Er

1947

The Spring River Flows East

6.727/11

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a...

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The Spring River Flows East

1947

Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon

6.333/3

A college girl and a musician go to the front of the anti-Japanese war and fall in love.

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Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon

1954

Cut the Evil’s Claw

6/2

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Cut the Evil’s Claw

1955

A Great Start

0/0

An episode from the life of a metallurgical plant collective. Lu Zhong-kui, an advanced worker appointed as head of the smelting shop, initiates the r...

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A Great Start

1957

Struggle in the Desert

10/1

A People's Liberation Army division in Xinjiang in 1951 aids in a water conservancy project.

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Struggle in the Desert

1959

The Opium Wars

5.857/7

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emper...

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The Opium Wars

1958

Cowboy Joining the Army

6/1

The story of fifteen-year-old shepherd Gu Xiao, who ran away from his landlord to the mountains. There he met scouts from the People's Liberation Army...

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Cowboy Joining the Army

1948

The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes

6.429/7

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and c...

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The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes

1949

The Winter of Three Hairs

7.308/13

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy stru...

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The Winter of Three Hairs