Tag: Chinese Film

Chinese film: Spring in a Small Town小城之春

This love-triangle story, based on the short play by Li Tianji, is directed by Fei Mu and produced by Wenhua Film Company, a private production company based in Shanghai. The subtle film, albeit lacking a complicated plot, is a good example of a psychological study of its characters. It has been highly praised for exploring characters' feelings and emotions under delicate situations. It is considered to be a pioneer in using poetic language in cinema.

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Chinese film: A Spring River Flows East一江春水向东流

This three-hour-plus, two-part epic written and directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli is a milestone of Chinese cinema. It tells the heart-wrenching story of a family's suffering in wartime Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war in the 1930s and 40s and depicts a protagonist's jaw-dropping transformation from an aspiring young man to a venal, crooked official.

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Kaiping watchtowers in China’s Guangdong Province

First time got to know watchtowers(a watchtower is a high building which gives a person a good view of the area around the place that they are guarding) in Guangdong(广东Guǎngdōng) was from the famous Chinese film Let the Bullets Fly, and I was shocked not only by the story but also by some architecture(the architecture of a building is the style in which it is designed and constructed) in it. They combine both the Chinese and western building styles including ancient Greek, Roman and Islamic ones, simple but revealing the deep sense of history. Compared with the ancient buildings I had visited before, watchtowers in the film seemed to be more modern.

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