TIME's Favorite Chinese Movies

[kepochi2009]

Yeahh.. Chungking Express.... well, as an ordinary Chinese who favor Bridgitte Lin, here's some of my suggestion: Peking Opera Blues, New Dragon Gate Inn (1992), Red Dust (1990), and The Swordsman II.

[muhammad152]

what about crouching tiger hidden dragon and kung fu hustle????

[reemstrrr]

i like the video bud it should be called Favorite Chinese kungfu Movies

becase thats the only genre you pickt in this video it looks like china only makes kungfu movies

becase i think that the ppl who realy love and watch chinese movies (like me) would not pick

kungfu movies as top 10chinese movies

[LongDong12inches]

@reemstrrr

Will you love me long time? My little chinese dumpling. Mushu Pork, Sweet & Sour chicken, Wonton Soup. I fancy a chinese girl with big breast.

[reemstrrr]

@LongDong12inches xD i olwase loved you 

[drannoc100]

Interesting. But the author definitely missed many other great ones between 1934 and 1990s. Chinese movies stars from the old days were much more talented than Gong Li, Joan Chen, or Jackie Chen. If the author tries to be an expert in this field, he needs to get himself be familiar with the names like Zhou Xuan, Jin Yan, Bai Yang, Zhao Dan, Tao Jing, Wang Danfeng, Qing Yi, etc. Chinese had a crowd of stars in Shanghai similar to the Hollywood back then.

[fernandesfran]

Richard, you got the 'Bei jing' pronunciation pat down. However, it's pronounced as 'sheeay sheeay' (xie xie) as compared to 'shay shay'.

[romonabruno]

And of course the had to mention jet li bruce li and jackie chan they are the best of the best :P

[puffmiao]

any chinese movie list without "To Live (活着)" does not have any merit IMO

[AshitaNoKanousei42]

Hong Kong is not China!!!  What the heck kind of ignorance is that?

[WoShiHuoXingRen7]

@AshitaNoKanousei42 It's part of China since July of 1997. Welcome to the present, dear.

[reemstrrr]

@AshitaNoKanousei42 brainless ignorance (mostly american)

[gil166]

ANYTHING with Gong Li

[normalsoverrated]

I love what he says about Leslie Cheung

[lipomli]

no stephen chow????

come on, i'm french and i just love stephen chow's movies!

i'm a fan of chinese cinema <3

[hr1dave]

My favorite is "The Road Home" and "Not One Less". I love Chinese movies.

[SpiderMen84]

chinese people taste is different with western people...!!

[lordgeneral9]

thank you very much

[hfcarwash]

TIME, how can you miss any of Stephen Chow's great movies here. If there is a top 10 list of Chinese movies Stephen Chow's will occupy at least 5 of them. You ignorant fool go back to research some more before you pretend you know it all.

[FuKThatSh8]

OMG Curse of the Golden Flower is by far my favorite asian movie!! i could go on forever about Gong Li as the empress, the costumes, the attention to detail on the set and the colors if you havent seen it - check it out you'll watch it a hundred times and it still wont get old

[Ezol1]

No Bruce Lee movie? No Fearless? No kung fu hustle? :o

[KarlyH]

STEPHEN CHOW STEPHEN CHOW where is our STEPHEN CHOW  movies

hes more classic than jackie (in my opinion)

[heishirosama]

Not that bad list, although in my opinion there should separate lists for Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China because they all have different censorship and I'm sure there are other differences as well.

[JetLiIsGreat]

This is a pretty bad list more for americans who have no clue what they are watching and satsify their steroetype of chinese.

[SoulOsoLJa]

how the hell did none of Stephen Chow's movies make it onto the list?? this is what happens when ppl don't understand Stephen Chow movies....

[Dke721]

I agree that this list is pretty bad but alot of Chinese films havn't gotten much exposure in the US. Crouching Tiger was a must for a US list, it was very popular here. Then again Peking Opera Blues never even played in my area and I eventually had to buy copies of Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love just to see them.

[lilylessons]

Anyone want learn Chinese with me?

[okterrific2005]

please tell me you didn't count Taiwan

[tpjl25]

This guy's an idiot. And Time magazine (with its grade 5 reading level) could only be important in the US. Dude knows little about film, less so about Chinese film. Typical American.

[redstriker27]

this guys a dumb ass, crouchin tiger hidden dragon? i know loads of films much better that which isnt here. wheres fong say yuk or chinese ghost story for example. no stephen chow or andy lau films either. my guess times shud use a chink to rate chinese films not a white dude

[JizzleTizzleFizzle]

agreed... i thought there would be stephen chow or andy lau films.. very disappointed..

[slaughter495]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1­111

[bigfatdick5000]

I don't like the wire works in Crouching Tiger. way way too much wire works.....

Though the plot and art directorship was brilliant.

[qiranwang]

this list is bs, the greatest movie made by chinese is "infernal affairs"

[BaronSamedi92]

agreed, that one was good enough to be remade by Scorcese into The Departed

[ferretburger]

How about "Summer Palace"?

[NippleBerry]

"a chinese odyssey" is not on here!!!!

but then again, it'd be too complicated for the western audience.

[dh144498]

nice one xD

[KoRayInc]

lol gymnast and smog

[hanshotfirst1138]

A lot of what's being mentioned here are technically Hong Kong films, aren't they?

[tangoseven70]

For a mainstream American film critic with a relatively ignorant audience, he did a pretty good job selecting representative films. Of course there are gaping holes and missing genres, but he only had ten slots. Imagine doing the same for American cinema? (Xie xie! :P

[hanshotfirst1138]

What are some films that you'd recommend?

[Nhia89]

wheres Bruce Lee??

I mean he was the one that introduced the West with the Martial Art genre and changed how China makes its action movies and he only did it with 6 films.

Just 6 films.

[iliveby2words]

None of Bruce Lee's films are in the top 100 Chinese movies, much less the top 10. He was influential as a martial artist and film star, but his movies were mediocre at best.

[Nhia89]

true i guess

[chocholalali]

What about Stepehen Chow? The king of Chinese comedy, they completely forgot about him, Time definitely favors wu xia films. Other Wong Kar-wai films such as Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love are worth a watch as well.

[RoamAure]

The Beijing and "jingle" analogy actually does NOT work. It's not correct, linguistically-speaking.

[clairannette]

Whoever did this voiceover has THE worst Chinese pronunciation ever. "shay shay everybody"? hahaha... how absurd.

[regregreg100]

The original Departed was Chinese as well.

[Ammaculate44]

MOE GAN DOE!!!!!!

[pagano60]

My favorite film from mainland China: Chen Kaige's YELLOW EARTH (1984)

My favorite Hong Kong action film: Tsui Hark's PEKING OPERA BLUES (1986)

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON was released in the year 2000 (and was given an Oscar nomination for Best Picture of the Year), not 2003, as the video says.

[iliveby2words]

PEKING OPERA BLUES!!!!!!!!

[vepost]

they forgot all about stephen chow

[hzhangcom]

Devils On the Doorstep by A China's most gifted actor/director - Jiang Wen

[hzhangcom]

Devil On the Doorstep

[CulturePeaceForever]

The Peking Dancers was amazing,in addition to the traditional things,it describes the mens' relationships and feelings more than a lot of other moviesg with mostly action.

[orlando99tony]

good job!They are definitely the best chinese movies ever.

[jyk113077]

Another great film is "Yi Yi" by Edward Yang. It's an expensive film to buy, but well worth the purchase.

[calvinnewspaper]

hey, how about Samuel Hui?

[spybungo]

you have to include comedy works from Stephen Chow Xing Chih from Hong Kong.