A still from Zhang Yimou’s directorial debut Red Sorghum (1988).
How China’s Fifth Generation filmmakers defied censorship and criticism to break new ground
- New ways of storytelling and rich political allegories were the innovations that this new breed of maverick directors introduced
- Bold in abstraction and symbolism, their films relied on images rather than dialogue for expression
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Chinese language cinema
A still from Zhang Yimou’s directorial debut Red Sorghum (1988).