With setting things to rights after the
Third Session of the Eleventh National Congress, the movie industry
obtained a chance of rebirth. In 1978, the Zhejiang Movie School was
established and the Zhejiang Movie Equipment Factory was enlarged. One
year later, Zhejiang Film studio recovered from the impacts and began to
screen a lot of feature films, documentaries and science & education
films. From 1979, Zhejiang Culture Bureau and Zhejiang Art Association
have held a screen play exchange meeting every year. After the foundation
of China Filmdom Committee Zhejiang Branch, its main role has been the
encouragement and supervision of the movie scripts.
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Under these measures, the Zhejiang
filmdom has made great progresses in script writing and presented many
movie scripts which reflected the social reality and revolutionary
history. These screen plays were made into movies by the movie studios all
over the country, such as the movies about the life styles of modern youth
like Youth, Romance of the Sea, Love and Heritage,
Pizzazz Everywhere, Silk Story in a Riverside Town, The
Xizi Girl, Bird and Flower, Feast in Heaven; the social
conflictions like Bitter Fruit, Invisible Net, Why Gave
the Birth to Me, Who Is the Third Party, Guangyin Is
Twelve-year-old This Year, The Replevied Love, The Smart
Detective; the minority tribe's life like Tea Song in Pie
Mountain; the children's life like Fox Hunting the Hunter,
Four Little Friends, Sonata of a Little Urchin, Luminous
Pearl, The Action of the Special Mixed Armada; the revolutionary
history like The University in Exile, Scholar in Army,
The Creation of the New World. The commercial and entertaining
movies became very popular then like R4 Mystery, The Robbery of
Gold Coins, The Mystery of the Heaven Dynasty's Fisk,
Special Women Detachment, The Mysteriously Disappeared Boat; and
in1990s, more and more commercial films were presented like Street
Knight, Winds and Rains on Old House, Iron-willed
Heroes, The Yearning Gooses in the Winds and Rains, The
Information Battle On an Isolated Island, Far-east Spy War,
The Secretly Screened Tape, Blood Memorial Ceremony,
Secret Days Again, Black Bolt, The Lost Hero, Firebolt
Policewomen, Outrageous Boxer, Bodyguard Hasier,
Urban Tussle, The First Kiss, The Crazy Boy and the
Loving Girl, Brothers in Luohe Town, Nu'erhong Wine and
Color Belts Wield in the Sky.
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Luminous Pearl, feature,
1987. |
Moreover, a lot of classic stage plays
of Zhejiang professional opera troups had been screened into movies during
the period, such as Kun Opera The Tale of the West Garden, Yue
Opera Tears of the Wedding Candles, Legend of the Embroidery
Girl, Five Daughters Offering Birthday Felicitations and
Tears of Tung Flower, Wu Opera Xishi's Tears and The
Queen's Miscarriage of Justice On the Pear-flower Case.
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In addition, the production of Zhejiang
movie industry has achieved further progresses these years. After the
reconstruction of Zhejiang Film studio, it has presented movies like
Rouge, Sparkle of Mind, Pizzazz Everywhere,
Luminous Pearl, Ms. Shexiang, Gun Shot on the Isolated
Island, The Road Towards to Sky, A Thousand Li Scary
Journey, Accident in The Honey Moon, The Director of the
Feedback Office, Zhou Enlai the Great Friend, Carry the
Wedding Sedan Chair, Tears of the Wedding Candles, Tang
Bohu, the documentary Zhou Enlai and Zhejiang, Public
Memorial Ceremony of Dayu Tomb and The Master of Landscape
Paintings Lu Yanshao; and such cooperative movies like Smart Woman
Detective and False Daughter With True Love with Shanghai Film
studio, Soul of the Nation with Fujian Film studio, The Father's
and The Son's Weddings with South Sea Co., Fazed Husband and
Beautiful Wife with Xi'an Film studio, Search a Wife by Computer with
Yun'nan Film studio, Girls Valley with Xie Jin Hengtong Co.,
Pioneers of the Anti-Drug Action with Hong Kong Xindabao Co.,
The Way of an Emperor with Suncity Co., etc.
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Premier Zhou Enlai and
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The above-mentioned movies have been awarded both
domestically and abroad. Why Gave the Birth to Me won the second
award of excellent feature films given by the National Culture Department
in 1984; Five Daughters Offering Birthday Felicitations won the
Excellent Drama Movie Award by the National Culture Department and the
Fifth Golden Chicken award for the drama movies in 1984; Four Little
Friends won the honored award of 12th Italian Tiffini International
Children's Movie Festival, Republic President's Silver Medal and the
honored award of 16th Iran International Educational Movie Festival;
The Invisible Net won the commentators award in the 12th Portuguese
International Movie Festival; Sonata of a Little Urchin won the
excellent movie award in Chinese Calf Movie Festival and the actor Yao Yun
won the special award; The Remote City won the best director award
of the Fifth Golden Chicken Movie Festival and the honored award of
Canadian Montreal Movie Festival£»The actress of the movie Wanderer and
the Goose won the best female actress award of the 9th Tashkent
International Movie Festival; The cartoon movie Love to Mountains and
Rivers won the grand award of Shanghai International Cartoon Movie
Festival; False Daughter With True Love won the excellent feature
movie award by the Nation's Broadcasting, Film and TV department in
1989-1990 and the actress Xi Meijuan Won the best female actress award in
11th Golden Chicken Festival; The Creation of the New World won the
1991 excellent movie award by the Nation's Broadcasting, Film and TV
department, the 5.1 Project excellent movie award by the central Promotion
department and the special prize of 12th Golden Chicken Festival, and
the screenwriters Huang Yazhou and Wang Tianyun won the best screen
writer award; The Action of the Special Mixed Armada won the bronze
award of the 2nd Cairo International Movie Festival; Street Knight
won the public award in French Marseille Movie Festival; The Brothers
in Luohe Town won the International Youth Center Award and Lucas Award
in the 20th German Frankfurt International Children's Movie Festival, the
bronze award of 5th Cairo International Movie Festival and the UN
Children's Manifesto Award of the 12th Chicago International Children's
movie festival; The actress of the movie Nu'erhong Wine won the
best actress award in Czech International Movie Festival; The Director
of the Feedback Department won the Chinese Ornamental Column Award in
1995, Zheng Yi and Shen Yiwei won the best screenwriter award;
Zhou Enlai the Great Friend won the 5.1 project award, etc. These
awarded films have extended the influence of Zhejiang movie industry
nationally and internationally and raised the reputations of Zhejiang
Province.
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False Daughter With True Love, feature, 1990.
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The activities related to movies became more and more
rich and colorful. In 1981, the First Golden Chicken Movie Festival and
the Fouth Hundred Flower Movie Festival were held in Hangzhou city. The
major leaders of the industry and the celebrities of the circle gathered
in Hangzhou from all over the country. Zhejiang Film studio screened a
documentary namely The Golden Chicken Crows and A Hundred flowers
Blossom to record the big event and lately publicized the film in the
country. Such excellent movies like Qiu Jin, Under The
Bridge and Anadems at the Foot of the High Mountain held their
premieres in Zhejiang. Moreover, a lot of actors, actresses, directors and
screenwriters have collected their afflatuses here.
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In
1981's movie festival, Xia Yan retuned to his hometown Hangzhou. Taken
with his folks. |
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The international exchanges of the industry became
frequent. The Zhejiang movies like operas Fifteen Guan, The
Monkey King Fight The Skeleton Monster, Rouge, Five
Daughters Offering Birthday Felicitations, feature Sparkle of
Mind, documentary Tiantai Guoqing Temple, Famous Dishes Of
Hangzhou and science Golden-headed Centipede have been
publicized in Canada, US, North Korea, Japan, Italy and Singapore, etc.
More and more persons of the circle have visited the foreign countries and
made exchanges with the relative experts; and more and more foreign
experts and movie stars have been to Zhejiang, made cultural exchanges and
even cooperated with the Chinese parties in movies.
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screenwriters like Gu Xidong, Li YunLiang, Yao Yun, Huang Yazhou, Hu
Yuewei, Fangzi, Tong Tingmiao, Qi Tianfa, Zhang Sicong, Gu Songen, Zheng
Yi, Chai Hongbin, Xu Haibin and such bright stars like Chen Zurong, Wang
Ruoli, Wu Dan, Xue Shujie, He Saifei, Tao Huimin, He Qing, Ru Ping, Zhou
Xun, Hu Bin, Kong Lin and Yuanli. Nowadays, Zhejiang movie industry holds
a very important position in the whole Chinese movie industry.
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Rouge, feature, 1980. Co screened with Hongkong Great
Wall Co. |
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