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List Of Chinese Films Of 2008
The following is a list of mainland Chinese films first released in year 2008. There were 80 Chinese feature films released in China in 2008. Highest-grossing films The following are the 10 highest-grossing Chinese films released in China in 2008. Films released See also * List of Chinese films of 2007 * List of Chinese films of 2009 References External linksIMDb list of Chinese films {{DEFAULTSORT:Chinese Films Of 2008 Lists of 2008 films by country Films 2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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Chinese Films
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of mainland China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese languages, Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. China is the home of the largest movie and drama production complex and film studios in the world, the Oriental Movie Metropolis and Hengdian World Studios. In 2012 the country became the second-largest market in the world by box office receipts behind only the United States. In 2016, the gross box office in China was (). China has also become a major hub of business for Hollywood studios. In November 2016, China passed Censorship in China, a film law banning content deemed harmful to the "dignity, honor and interests" of the People's Republic and encouraging the promotion of Core Socialist Values, core socialist values, approved by the National People's Congress Standing Committee. History Beginnings Motion pictures were introduced to China in ...
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All About Women
''All About Women'' (), originally titled ''She Ain't Mean'' and ''Not All Women Are Bad'', is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Tsui Hark. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Zhou Xun, Zhang Yuqi, and Gwei Lun-mei. It tells a series of interwoven stories focusing on the lives of three women and their romantic relationships. Zhou plays a clumsy woman who secretly develops a pheromone drug patch, which serves as a plot device for the film; Kwai plays a punk rock band singer, who is also a boxer and novelist; and Zhang plays a wealthy attractive woman. Originally set to be an updated version of Tsui's ''Peking Opera Blues'', ''All About Women'' was shot in Beijing, China, and was released in China and Hong Kong on 11 December 2008. The film was later released in Singapore on 8 January 2009. Plot Three women, none of them bad, but one calls herself "invincible"—31-year-old Tang Lu. Her beauty makes men fall for her like moths to a flame, and it is also ...
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Francis Ng
Francis Ng Chun-yu (; born 21 December 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and director. He is known for his roles in the TVB series '' Old Time Buddy'' (1997) and '' Triumph in the Skies'' (2003), as well as in films such as '' Bullets Over Summer'' (1999), '' The Mission'' (1999), '' 2000 AD'' (2000), ''Juliet in Love'' (2000), and '' Infernal Affairs II'' (2003). Early life Ng was born in Hong Kong to a family with ancestry from Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He is the uncle of footballer, Ng Wai Chiu. Ng revealed in a stand-up comedy, saying that when he was a child he told his mother that his dream was to get a job that does not need any academic qualification, without a fixed working hours and high pay. Then, his mother asked him to become a beggar. So, he went to Wong Tai Sin, a famous temple in Hong Kong, to observe those beggars there. He realised that becoming beggar is too busy and need to perform manual labour, which does not suit his free and unconstrained attitud ...
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Zhang Yuan (director)
Zhang Yuan (; born October 1963) is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers. Tasker, Yvonne (2002). "Zhang Yuan" i''Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers'' Routledge Publishing, p. 419. . Google Book Search. Retrieved 2008-08-24. He and his films have won ten awards out of seventeen nominations received at international film festivals. Feature films Born in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, Zhang received a BA in cinematography from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989. Having initially emerged onto the film scene shortly after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he is frequently referenced as an exemplar of the pioneers who are grouped into the loosely defined Sixth Generation. Despite a diploma from the prestigious Film Academy, Zhang decided to eschew his assigned position within the People's Liberation Army-connected August First Film Studio, choosing instead to produce his films ind ...
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Dada's Dance
''Dada's Dance'' () is a 2008 Chinese film directed by the leading sixth generation director, Zhang Yuan. Unlike earlier films in his career, ''Dada's Dance'' successfully negotiated the Chinese censorship apparatus and emerged unedited and unchanged from Zhang's original cut. The film stars Li Xinyun as the titular Dada and was produced by Zhang's own Zhang Yuan Cultural Studios and the Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company. The film screened once in Beijing, China during the Beijing Screenings event on 25 September 2008 and had its international premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival on 3 October 2008. Plot Dada ( Li Xinyun) is a young woman living in an unnamed central China city (filming took place in Wuhan) with her divorced mother (Gai Ke) and her mother's leering boyfriend ( Wu Lanhui). Her neighbor, Zhao Ye (Li Xiaofeng) spies on her through her open window each morning as she dances to salsa music and gets ready for the day. Dada, kno ...
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Wang Hongwei
Wang Hongwei (; born in Anyang, Henan) is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang starring in Jia's breakthrough short film '' Xiao Shan Going Home'' in 1995. Since then, Wang has had roles in nearly all of Jia's films, including starring roles in Jia's debut '' Xiao Wu'' and follow-up, '' Platform''. Given his collaboration with Jia, Wang Hongwei is often considered the director's on-screen alter ego An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate Self (psychology), self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original Personality psychology, personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other .... Filmography References External links *Wang Hongweiat the Chinese Movie Database Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Beijing Film Academy al ...
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Cry Me A River (film)
''Cry Me a River'' ( ''Heshang de aiqing'', literally "love on the river") is a 2008 short film directed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film is a romance recounting the reunion of four college friends and lovers after ten years. The leads are played by Jia regulars Zhao Tao and Wang Hongwei, and Hao Lei and Guo Xiaodong, who starred together in Lou Ye's 2006 film ''Summer Palace''. Jia has stated that he was inspired by the classic Chinese film '' Spring in a Small Town'', also about the reuniting of former lovers in a rural river town in eastern China. The film was produced by Jia's own Xstream Pictures. Release The film premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival out-of-competition as one of two Chinese films in the lineup (Yu Lik-wai's '' Plastic City'' was the other). The short film also screened with Jia's feature length '' 24 City'' as a companion piece at the BFI London Film Festival The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in ...
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Wang Bing (director)
Wang Bing (; born 1967) is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. His movie on People's Republic of China, Chinese labour camps, ''The Ditch'', was included in the 2010 67th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival as the ''film sorpresa''. Recognition ''Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks'', Wang's 9 hour epic documentary of industrial China, was considered a major success. ''Tie Xi Qu'' went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and was shown for the first time in Spain at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. Wang's film ''Fengming, a Chinese Memoir'', premiered at both 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes and 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto in 2007. ''Crude Oil'' premiered at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. Since then, his films became a ...
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Crude Oil (film)
''Crude Oil'' ( zh, s=采油日记, t=採油日記, p=Cǎi yóu rì jì) is a 2008 Chinese documentary film directed by Wang Bing. Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, it follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine. Like Wang's debut feature—the nine-hour '' Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks''—''Crude Oil'' is notable for extreme length, running to 840 minutes (14 hours). The original plan called for a 70-hour film, but Wang felt compelled to exert additional editorial control and reduced the work to its present length. The director himself came down with severe altitude sickness and left the location three days into the one-week shoot; his crew completed the remainder without him. ''Crude Oil'' premiered (in a video installation setting) at the 2008 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it received a NETPAC "Special Mention" for "its dispassionate expose of the hardship of human labour which is the basis of economic pr ...
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Xu Jiao
Xu Jiao (; born 5 August 1997) is a Chinese actress. She made her film debut in the 2008 sci-fi film ''CJ7'' where she played a boy, and won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer. She is also known for the films ''Starry Starry Night (film), Starry Starry Night'' (2011) and ''Mr. Go (film), Mr. Go'' (2013). Filmography Film Television series References External links

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Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow Sing-chi (; born 22 June 1962) is a Hong Kong filmmaker and former actor, known for his mo lei tau comedy. His career began in television, where he gained recognition through variety shows and TV dramas. Chow's breakthrough came in 1989 with the comedy dramas '' The Final Combat'' and ''The Justice of Life'', the latter marking the beginning of his on-screen collaboration with Ng Man-tat. He consecutively broke Hong Kong’s box office records in the next two years with films '' All for the Winner'' (1990) and '' Fight Back to School'' (1991), cementing his status as one of the region's most popular comedic actors. Since the early 1990s, Chow began working as a screenwriter and director, serving as a de facto director for '' Flirting Scholar'' (1993) before receiving his first directorial credit with '' From Beijing with Love'' (1994). His first two attempts at Hong Kong–mainland co-productions, ''Flirting Scholar'' and the two-part tragicomedy '' A Chinese Odyssey ...
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Gwei Lun-mei
Gwei Lun-mei (; born 25 December 1983) is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in 2002, with the film '' Blue Gate Crossing''. Gwei then appeared in a few more films before achieving wide recognition for the film '' Secret'', directed by Jay Chou, in which Gwei played the character of Lu Hsiao-yu. In 2012, Gwei starred in '' Girlfriend, Boyfriend'', a coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can b ... drama in which three teenagers navigate their attraction to one another – from their high school years into their adulthood. The film won Gwei a Best Leading Actress award at the 49th Golden Horse Awards. Personal life Gwei has been in a long-term relationship with actor and filmmaker Leon Dai since 2004. Filmography Film Television Music ...
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