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Zhejiang Movie Industry After the Reform and Open-Up
2006-7-3 17:57:28
    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.
    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.
image 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.
    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.
image Premier Zhou Enlai and Zhejiang

    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.
image False Daughter With True Love, feature, 1990. Co-screened with Shanghai Film Studio.

    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.
image In 1981's movie festival, Xia Yan retuned to his hometown Hangzhou. Taken with his folks.

    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.
    The developing industry has brought us the famous 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.
image Rouge, feature, 1980. Co screened with Hongkong Great Wall Co.