CHINA AND TAIWAN

By: Kenji

Raise the Red Lantern

China, managed by Myra, won our Auteurs/Mubi film World Cup in 2009, while Taiwan also performed very creditably: there are treasures aplenty.

Rouge (Kwan)

My favourites from China and Taiwan:

Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsaio-hsien)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
Daybreak (Sun Yu)
Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)

A Brighter Summer Day

See also Myra’s superb and very informative separate lists on Chinese Cinema and Taiwanese Cinema, and 2 poll lists of 100 best films, The Golden Horse Film Fest and Hong Kong Film Awards. Also Arsaib’s great lists China, the Fourth Generation and Wu Wenguang on the Documentary film maker

And below, a list of essentials from both countries, in year order

• 01
  Romance of a Fruit Peddler
  Zhang Shichuan
• 02
  The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple
  Shichuan Zhang
• 03
  Red Heroine
  Wen Yimin
• 04
  Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood
  Bu Wancang
• 05
  Daybreak
  Sun Yu
• 06
  Little Toys
  Sun Yu
• 07
  Spring Silkworms
  Cheng Bugao
• 08
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 09
  Song of the Fishermen
  Cai Chusheng
• 10
  The Big Road
  Sun Yu
• 11
  Scenes of City Life
  Yuan Muzhi
• 12
  Song at Midnight
  Ma-Xu Weibang
• 13
  Street Angel
  Yuan Muzhi
• 14
  Princess Iron Fan
  Wan Guchan
• 15
  The Spring River Flows East
  Cai Chusheng
• 16
  Spring in a Small Town
  Fei Mu
• 17
  Sorrows of the Forbidden City
  Zhu Shilin
• 18
  Crows and Sparrows
  Zheng Junli
• 19
  This Life of Mine
  Shi Hui
• 20
  In the Face of Demolition
  Li Tie
• 21
  Cold Nights
  Lee Sun-fung
• 22
  City without Night
  Tang Xiaodan
• 23
  The Purple Hairpin
  Li Tie
• 24
  Kingdom and the Beauty
  Li Han Hsiang
• 25
  The Lin Family Shop
  Shui Hua
• 26
  The Great Devotion
  Chor Yuen
• 27
  The Wild, Wild Rose
  Tian-lin Wang
• 28
  The Love Eterne
  Li Han Hsiang
• 29
  Two Stage Sisters
  Xie Jin
• 30
  Dragon Gate Inn
  King Hu
• 31
  The Story of a Discharged Prisoner
  Lung Kong
• 32
  At Dawn
  Li Han Hsiang
• 33
  The One-Armed Swordsman
  Chang Cheh
• 34
  A Touch of Zen
  King Hu
• 35
  The Arch
  Tang Shu Shuen
• 36
  Four Moods
  Lee Hsing
• 37
  Autumn Execution
  Lee Hsing
• 38
  Fist of Fury
  Lo Wei
• 39
  The Winter
  Li Han Hsiang
• 40
  The Butterfly Murders
  Tsui Hark
• 41
  Raining in the Mountain
  King Hu
• 42
  Dirty Ho
  Liu Chia-Liang
• 43
  Evening Rain
  Wu Yigong
• 44
  The Alley
  Yang Yanjin
• 45
  Boat People
  Ann Hui
• 46
  Father and Son
  Allen Fong
• 47
  Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
  Tsui Hark
• 48
  In Our Time
  Edward Yang
• 49
  The Sandwich Man
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 50
  Growing Up
  Chen Kun-ho
• 51
  Ah Ying
  Allen Fong
• 52
  The Boys from Fengkuei
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 53
  That Day, on the Beach
  Edward Yang
• 54
  My Memories of Old Beijing
  Wu Yigong
• 55
  Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter
  Liu Chia-Liang
• 56
  Homecoming
  Yim Ho
• 57
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 58
  River Without Buoys
  Wu Tianming
• 59
  Yellow Earth
  Chen Kaige
• 60
  At the Beach
  Teng Wenji
• 61
  Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• 62
  In the Wild Mountains
  Yan Xueshu
• 63
  A Narrow Lane Celebrity
  Cong Lianwen
• 64
  A Time to Live and a Time to Die
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 65
  The Horse Thief
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
• 66
  Kuei-mei, a Woman
  Chang Yi
• 67
  Hibiscus Town
  Xie Jin
• 68
  Dust in the Wind
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 69
  Old Well
  Wu Tianming
• 70
  A Better Tomorrow
  John Woo
• 71
  The Terrorizers
  Edward Yang
• 72
  City on Fire
  Ringo Lam
• 73
  Rouge
  Stanley Kwan
• 74
  An Autumn's Tale
  Mabel Cheung
• 75
  King of the Children
  Chen Kaige
• 76
  Red Sorghum
  Zhang Yimou
• 77
  Feeling from Mountain and Water
  Te Wei
• 78
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 79
  The Killer
  John Woo
• 80
  Banana Paradise
  Wang Tung
• 81
  Days of Being Wild
  Wong Kar-wai
• 82
  Song of the Exile
  Ann Hui
• 83
  Ju Dou
  Zhang Yimou
• 84
  Bumming in Beijing
  Wu Wenguang
• 85
  Life on a String
  Chen Kaige
• 86
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 87
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 88
  The Story of Qiu Ju
  Zhang Yimou
• 89
  Autumn Moon
  Clara Law
• 90
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 91
  Center Stage
  Stanley Kwan
• 92
  Farewell My Concubine
  Chen Kaige
• 93
  The Puppetmaster
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 94
  The Days
  Wang Xiaoshuai
• 95
  The Blue Kite
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
• 96
  Woman Sesame Oil Maker
  Xie Fei
• 97
  Eat Drink Man Woman
  Ang Lee
• 98
  The Day the Sun Turned Cold
  Yim Ho
• 99
  To Live
  Zhang Yimou
• 100
  The Red Lotus Society
  Stan Lai
• 101
  Ermo
  Zhou Xiaowen
• 102
  A Borrowed Life
  Wu Nien-Jen
• 103
  The Wedding Banquet
  Ang Lee
• 104
  Ashes of Time
  Wong Kar-wai
• 105
  A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
  Jeffrey Lau
• 106
  In the Heat of the Sun
  Jiang Wen
• 107
  Chungking Express
  Wong Kar-wai
• 108
  Good Men, Good Women
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 109
  Postman
  He Jianjun
• 110
  Fallen Angels
  Wong Kar-wai
• 111
  Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
  Stanley Kwan
• 112
  Red Persimmon
  Wang Tung
• 113
  The King of Masks
  Wu Tianming
• 114
  Comrades: Almost a Love Story
  Peter Chan
• 115
  Made in Hong Kong
  Fruit Chan
• 116
  Pickpocket
  Jia Zhangke
• 117
  The River
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 118
  Flowers of Shanghai
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 119
  The Hole
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 120
  Darkness and Light
  Chang Tso-chi
• 121
  Jiang Hu: Life on the Road
  Wu Wenguang
• 122
  The Mission
  Johnnie To
• 123
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  Ang Lee
• 124
  Suzhou River
  Lou Ye
• 125
  Devils on the Doorstep
  Jiang Wen
• 126
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 127
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 128
  Platform
  Jia Zhangke
• 129
  What Time Is it There?
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 130
  Zhou Yu's Train
  Sun Zhou
• 131
  Infernal Affairs
  Andrew Lau Wai-keung
• 132
  Hero
  Zhang Yimou
• 133
  Blind Shaft
  Li Yang
• 134
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 135
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 136
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 137
  House of Flying Daggers
  Zhang Yimou
• 138
  Oxhide
  Liu Jiayin
• 139
  Fuck Cinema
  Wu Wenguang
• 140
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 141
  Everlasting Regret
  Stanley Kwan
• 142
  The Wayward Cloud
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 143
  The World
  Jia Zhangke
• 144
  Fujian Blue
  Weng Shou Ming
• 145
  I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 146
  Exiled
  Johnnie To
• 147
  And the Spring Comes
  Gu Changwei
• 148
  Lust, Caution
  Ang Lee
• 149
  Shanghai Dreams
  Wang Xiaoshuai
• 150
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 151
  The Sun Also Rises
  Jiang Wen
• 152
  Chronicle of a Chinese Woman
  Wang Bing
• 153
  Tuya's Marriage
  Wang Quanan
• 154
  City of Life and Death
  Lu Chuan
• 155
  Cannot Live Without You
  Leon Dai
• 156
  New Castle
  Guo Hengqi
• 157
  Oxhide II
  Liu Jiayin
• 158
  Disorder
  Huang Weikai
• 159
  Winter Vacation
  Li Hongqi
• 160
  I Wish I Knew
  Jia Zhangke
• 161
  A Simple Life
  Ann Hui
• 162
  Karamay
  Xu Xin
• 163
  The Grandmaster
  Wong Kar-wai
• 164
  Born in Beijing
  Ma Li
• 165
  Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
  Wei Te-sheng
• 166
  Three Sisters
  Wang Bing
• 167
  Fly With the Crane
  Li Ruijun