The Blue Kite

...Town marks the return of Tian Zhuangzhuang to the director's chair, following a nearly nine-year absence since his last film, The Blue Kite (1993). It was funded by several production companies from China (Beijing Film Studio, Beijing...

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...Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang. He would serve as the assistant director in Zhang's Raise the Red Lantern (1992) and Tian's The Blue Kite, as well as a screenwriter for Chen Kaige's King of the Children (1987), before his debut film, Red...

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...driver who owns the titular Delamu. Though quiet and a far cry from either the insulated Springtime in a Small Town or the epic The Blue Kite, Tian's Delamu has nevertheless garnered both praise and some criticism. On the one hand it has...

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...commercial fare ('' (1991)). In 1991, Tian began work on a quiet epic about one of modern China's darkest moments. This film, ''The Blue Kite (1993), would eventually result in Tian's years-long exile from the film industry, an exile he has...

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...from the movies turned out to be a welcome chance to catch up on foreign works. Tian Zhuangzhuang ran afoul of Chinese censors with "The Blue Kite," a critical look at the first 17 years of Communist rule told through eyes of a primary...

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The Blue Kite is a film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 1993. Though banned by the Chinese government upon its completion (along with a ten year ban on filmmaking imposed on Tian), the film soon found a receptive international audience.

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...best-known of these is probably Xie Jin's Hibiscus Town (1986), although they could be seen as late as the 1990s with Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite (1993). Beginning in the mid-late 1980s, the rise of the so-called Fifth Generation of...

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...that was lifted only in September after Zhang directed the spectacular Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Tian's "The Blue Kite," a critical depiction of life during the Cultural Revolution, was banned in China, and the...

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...("Tokyo Tower," "Shinobi Heart Under Blade) and Taiwan s Tou Chung-hua ("Lust, Caution," "July Rhapsody.") Tian, director of "The Blue Kite," is a so called 'fifth generation' helmer and was himself prevented from directing for several...

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...fingerprints. Wu Di, a researcher at the China Movie Art Center in Beijing, said that when the director Tian Zhuangzhuang shot "The Blue Kite," a 1993 movie about the banned topic of the Cultural Revolution, notice was sent throughout the...

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