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Film Movement
1982–1994

Chinese Fifth Generation

East Asian Cinema
Key Directors
Chang Cheh
China
Zhang Yimou
China
Defining Films
To Live 1994 · Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Lantern 1991 · Zhang Yimou
Yellow Earth 1984 · Zhang Yimou
The Great Wall 2016 · Zhang Yimou
Coming Home 2014 · Zhang Yimou
The Flowers of War 2011 · Zhang Yimou
Under the Hawthorn Tree 2010 · Zhang Yimou
Related Movements in East Asian Cinema
Japanese Golden Age
1950s–1960s
Japanese New Wave
1960–1973
Hong Kong New Wave
1979–1997