# 🇨🇳 FILMS - CHINESE CINEMA - [ ] The Great Road (1934) - silent film - [ ] Two Stage Sisters (1965) - [ ] Lust, Caution (2007) - [ ] The Legend of Drunken Master (1996) - [ ] Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - [ ] House of Flying Daggers (2004) - [x] The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) - [ ] Kung Fu Hustle (2004) - [ ] Hero (2002) - [ ] The Killer (1989) - [ ] Chungking Express (1994) - [ ] The Blue Kite (1993) - [ ] City of Life and Death (2009) - [ ] Farewell My Concubine (1993) - [ ] In the Mood for Love (2000) - [ ] Red Sorghum (1987) Timeline of Chinese Cinema https://mubi.com/lists/chinese-cinema 1st gen refers to China’s film pioneers of the 1920s; 2nd gen - leftist filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940s (mostly working for various private film studios in Shanghai); 3rd gen - mostly Yan’an-trained filmmakers who became important in the early People’s Republic of China (PRC) cinema of the 1950s 4th gen - those trained in the early 1960s but who had to wait until the post-Mao late 1970s to start making films 5th gen - first post-Mao graduating class from Beijing Film Academy and other young directors who joined them in the post-Mao cinematic wave. 6th gen - mid-1990s, a new group of directors emerged –who had graduated in the late 1980s and embarked on their careers at a time when the state studios could no longer afford experimental films in the wake of economic reform