List of Chinese films of the 1980s
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1980
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Evening Rain | Wu Yonggang, Wu Yigong |
Drama | Co-winner of the first Golden Rooster for best picture in 1981 | |
Kith and Kin | Teng Wenji Wu Tianming |
Li Weixin, Liu Dong |
Drama | |
Legend of Tianyun Mountain | Xie Jin | Drama | Co-winner of the first Golden Rooster for best picture in 1981 | |
Romance on Lushan Mountain | Huang Zumu | Drama |
1981
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Awakening | Teng Wenji | Joan Chen | Romance | |
Call of the Home Valley | Wang Jin, Hu Bingliu |
Drama | ||
A Deer of Nine Colors | Animated short | |||
Drive to Win | Zhang Nuanxin | Drama | ||
Longing for My Native Country | Hu Bingliu, Wang Jin |
Huang Jinchang, Ren Yexiang |
Drama | Entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival |
Neighbors | Zheng Dongtian, Xu Guming |
Drama | ||
Regret for the Past | Shui Hua | Huang Zhongluo | Drama | |
人參果 (Ren Shen Guo) | ||||
The True Story of Ah Q | Fan Cen | Yan Shunkai | Drama | Entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival |
1982
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Countering Lights | Ding Yinnan | Romance | ||
The Deer's Bell | Wu Qiang, Tang Cheng |
Animated short | Winner of the third Golden Rooster for Best Animation in 1983 | |
The Herdsman | Xie Jin | Zhu Shimao, Liu Qiong |
Drama | Screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival |
My Memories of Old Beijing | Wu Yigong | Shen Jia, Zhang Fengyi |
Drama | Winner of the third Golden Rooster for Best Director, Best Music and Best Supporting Actress in 1983 |
Red Elephant | Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Jianya, Xie Xiaojing |
Children/Family | ||
Rickshaw Boy | Ling Zifeng | Siqin Gaowa, Zhang Fengyi |
Drama | Golden Rooster for Best Film in 1983 |
Strange Friends | Lei Xu | Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival |
1983
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Candidate | Wu Ziniu | Drama | ||
One and Eight | Zhang Junzhao | Chen Daoming | War | One of the first "Fifth Generation" films, cinematography by Zhang Yimou |
River Without Buoys | Wu Tianming | Drama | ||
Thunderstorm | Sun Daolin | Drama |
1984
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Blue Flowers | Shui Hua, Ma Bingyu |
Guo Kaimin | Drama | |
The Border Town | Ling Zifeng | Feng Hanyuan | Drama | Golden Rooster Award for Best Director |
September | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | ||
Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain | Xie Jin | War | ||
Yellow Earth | Chen Kaige | Wang Xueqi | Drama | Chen Kaige's directorial debut |
1985
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Army Nurse | Hu Mei, Li Xiaojun |
Romance | ||
The Black Cannon Incident | Huang Jianxin | Black comedy | Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival | |
Dove Tree | Wu Ziniu | War | First Fifth Generation film to be banned | |
Liangjia funu | Huang Jianzhong | Drama | ||
Monkey King Conquers the Demon | ||||
Mountain's Daughter | Chen Shengli | Ge You | Drama | |
On the Hunting Ground | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | ||
Sacrifice of Youth | Zhang Nuanxin | Li Fengxu | Drama | |
Stories of the Voyage | Liu Miaomiao | Drama |
1986
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Big Parade | Chen Kaige | Wang Xueqi | Drama | |
Dislocation | Huang Jianxin | Liu Zifeng | Comedy/Science fiction | |
A Girl from Hunan | Xie Fei | Naren Hua | Drama | Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival |
A Great Wall | Peter Wang | |||
Hibiscus Town | Xie Jin | Liu Xiaoqing, Jiang Wen |
Drama | |
The Horse Thief | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | Named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite film of the 1980s | |
The Last Day of Winter | Wu Ziniu | |||
Old Well | Wu Tianming | Zhang Yimou | Drama | |
Trapped in a Frozen River | Zhang Jianya | Drama/Thriller | Also known as Ice River | |
The Tribulations of an Old Master | Wu Yigong, Zhang Jianya |
Rosalind Chao, Chen Peisi |
Drama |
1987
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Death Visits the Living | Huang Jianzhong | Drama | ||
Desperation | Zhou Xiaowen, Shi Chengfeng |
Thriller | Also known as The Last Frenzy | |
Far From War | Hu Mei | |||
In Their Prime | Zhou Xiaowen, Guo Fangfang |
Drama | ||
King of the Children | Chen Kaige | Chen Shaohua | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
Red Sorghum | Zhang Yimou | Gong Li | Drama/War | Early Zhang Yimou effort, Golden Bear winner at Berlin |
Street Players | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | Also known as Drum Singers | |
Sun Yatsen | Ding Yinnan | Biographical | ||
Women on the Long March | Liu Miaomiao | War |
1988
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Between Life and Death | Wu Ziniu | Drama | ||
The Boxer | Liu Miaomiao | Liu Shangxian | Drama | |
Evening Bell | Wu Ziniu | Chong Peipei, Tao Zeru, Ge Yaming |
War | Silver Bear-Jury Grand Prix winner at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival |
Feeling from Mountain and Water | Te Wei | Animated short | ||
The Filmmakers | Ding Yinnan | Siqin Gaowa | Drama | |
Joyous Heroes | Wu Ziniu | Drama | ||
Kidnapping Karajan | Zhang Jianya | Comedy | ||
King of Chess | Teng Wenji | Drama | ||
Mutiny | He Qun | War | ||
Obsession | Zhou Xiaowen | Drama | Also known as The Price of Frenzy | |
Rock 'n' Roll Kids | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | Also known as Rock Kids | |
Samsara | Huang Jianxin | Jia Hongsheng | ||
Savage Land | Ling Zifeng | Liu Xiaoqing | Drama | |
The Troubleshooters | Mi Jiashan | Zhang Guoli, Ge You |
Comedy | |
We Are the World | He Ping | Drama | ||
Widow Village | Wang Jin | Hao Jialing, Tao Zeru |
Drama | Also known as The Village of Widows |
A Woman For Two | Ling Zifeng | Liu Xiaoqing | Drama |
1989
Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ballad of the Yellow River | Teng Wenji | Ge You | Drama | |
Codename Cougar | Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang |
Gong Li, Ge You | Action/Thriller | |
Kawashima Yoshiko | He Ping | Biographical | ||
The Shining Arc | Zhang Junzhao | Entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
Unforgettable Life | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Drama | Also known as Special Operating Room and Illegal Lives | |
Westbound Convict Train | He Qun | Action/Thriller |
Mainland Chinese Film Production Totals
Year | Total Films[1] |
---|---|
1980 | 83 |
1981 | 105 |
1982 | 114 |
1983 | 127 |
1984 | 143 |
1985 | 127 |
1986 | 125 |
1987 | 146 |
1988 | 158 |
1989 | 136 |
References
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See also
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- Cinema of China
- Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures as chosen by the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards