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| 3/3 - | Japanese bombs destroy a number of studios and cinemas in Shanghai, forcing 30 companies to cease production. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 5/3 - | Kuang Liu (Torrents) premieres in Shanghai. Bugao Cheng’s film is the first Chinese revolutionary film to focus on the peasants and the resistance against imperialism and feudalism. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 12/11 - | The Yi-Hua Studio in Shanghai, which was founded by director Tian-Han, is wrecked by a fascist group named the Blue shirts. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – This year and next leading directors Sun Yu, Bu Wancang, Cai Chusheng and Wu Yonggang make wenyipian - literary art films – which implicitly protest against the continued Japanese occupation of Northeastern China. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Bugao Cheng’s Chun Can (Spring Silkworms) explores the hardships encountered by China’s silkworm farms. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| Tianming (Daybreak) (Sun Yu) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 31/7 - | Cai Chusheng’s The Song of the Fisherman is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Yonggang Wu’s Shen nu (The Goddess), starring Lingyu Ruan, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Chusheng Cai’s Xin nu xing, starring Lingyu Ruan, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| Taoli jie (Fate of Graduates) (Yunwei Ying) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Dalu (The Big Road) (Yu Sun) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 8/3 - | Actress Ruan Lingyu, ‘the Chinese Garbo’ commits suicide in Shanghai at the age of 25 by taking an overdose of barbiturates. She leaves a note stating ‘gossip is a fearful thing,’ after her lifestyle attracted malicious gossip. [MORE] | |||
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Song of China (Ming-Yau Lo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Xiling Shen’s Shizi jietou (Crossroads), starring Dan Zhao and Yang Bai, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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28-year-old Mu-jih Yuan’s Malu Tianshi, based on Frank Borzage’s 1928 film Street Angel, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Following the invasion by Japan, many filmmakers flee from Shanghai, and those who remain are employed by the Japanese to produce propaganda films. Ming Xing and Lianhua production company both cease making films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The puppet government of Manchukuo announces the opening of the Japanese sponsored Manchukuo Film Association Ltd. in North east China. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1938 | ||||
| 30/9 - | The Cinema Group of Yenan is established under the management of actor-director Mu-jih Yuan and the political supervision of the Eighth Communist Army. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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– Wancang Bu’s Mulan cong jun (Mulan joins the Army) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 28/12 - | Tie shan gong zhu (The Iron Fan), China’s first animated feature, is released by the Wan Brothers. The film’s anti-Japanese tone proves popular with audiences. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1946 | ||||
| – The Central Film Bureau is established to control all aspects of Chinese film production, distribution and exhibition. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1947 | ||||
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Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1948 | ||||
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– Mu Fei’s Xiao cheng zhi chun (Spring in a Small Town) is released. In 2002 it will be voted the greatest Chinese-language film of all time by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. [MORE] [ADD] |
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In Peking, the People's Liberation Army sets up a Cinema Board managed by Mu-jih Yuan, who has been head of the army's cinematographic section since 1938. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Shanghai Film Studio and the Beijing Film Studio are both founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Wuya yu maque (Junli Zheng) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Central Office of Cinematographic Control, of which Mao Tse-Tung's wife Jian Quing is a member, is set up to advise and control the film industry in China as part of the Ministry of Culture. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Performance Art Institution of the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture – later to be known as the Beijing Film Academy - is established. 38 students enrol in its first year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Almost all American films are banned from China following the cultural revolution. Films from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe fill the void. [MORE] [ADD] |