This year is the centennial of Chinese film. In 1905, China shot its first film, Ding Jun Shan, which was also considered as China's first kung fu film by some people.
Art movies are those non-commercial movies for the sake of arts. In the 1990s, China made fruitful achievements in making art movies. The representative directors are Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who have won international awards once and again.
The films celebrating the Chinese New Year are a big success in the end of the 20th century. The New Year's Films mainly have two features: the contents and stories have something to do the New Year and the Spring Festival, and these films have relatively good comic entertainment effect, create festive atmosphere and play the role of celebrating the festivals.
It is this generation of directors that really brought Chinese films to the world stage, and gained worldwide recognition and acknowledgement.
Zhang Ziyi, the young and vibrant Chinese actress, has been hailed as a shining star in the East.
Debuting as a drector in 1994 with "Love Forever Lost", Feng Xiaogang has made a name for himself in China as a director of successful comedies.
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