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Anyway, the names of movies you mentioned I only heard of "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon". In India, people mostly see Hongkong based Kung-fu movies otherwise we could not find any good story in Chinese movies apart from Kung-Fu.
@Gotter i knew you would say 'CHINESE' movies (we know what you trying to say).... Some people here love to hide behind other nation FLAG.... Don't be ashamed to use your own country flag....
Ha Ha better do some research before talking bullshit.
I hope that sure did hurt your chinese ego
Well, some Indians here do have somewhat distorted views on international cinema. I think it's pretty natural Götterdämmerung would bring up the Chinese cinema as it's one of the more successful non-Western countries in the international film circle in the last 30 years or so.
Indian did produce some truly remarkable directors, Satyajit Ray is a great example, just as one Indian member had mentioned. But it's also a fact India had little success in the art house cinema (where artistic merits instead of commercial selling power is most important) in the last 30 or 40 years.
A bit research will show in the last 30 years China produced more award-winning films in the undisputed top 3 international film festivals (Golden Bear@Berlin, Golden Palm@Cannes and Golden Lion@Venice) than any other non-Western countries, followed by Japan I think, and most of those awarding-winning directors came from the Mainland rather than Hong Kong or Taiwan.
For reference here's a list of Chinese directors with big three wins in the last 30 years:
Zhang Yimou(Mainland, twice Golden Lion, once Golden Bear)
Chen Kaige (Mainland, Golden Palm)
Xie Fei (Mainland, Golden Bear)
Wang Quan'an (Mainland, Golden Bear)
Jiang Zhangke (Mainland, Golden Lion)
Ang Lee (Taiwan, twice Golden Bear, twice Golden Lion)
Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan, Golden Lion)
Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan, Golden Lion)
The only Indian director with a big three win in the last 30 years was Mira Nair (Golden Lion).
I'm not saying Indian cinema is not successful commercially, but in the international art film circle it is not near as influential as the Chinese cinema.