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The Opium War (鸦片战争) is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal .
The War of the Vendee (2002) a children's movie with an all-youth cast about the 1793 royalist revolt and civil war in ... (1997), First Opium War; Taiping Rebellion ...
The Opium War: 1997: 1839–42: historical epic film about the First Opium War, told through the eyes of Lin Zexu and Charles Elliot: The Empress Dowager: 1975: 1835–1908: a Hong Kong film about Empress Dowager Cixi: Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch: 1991: 1848–1911: the Qing dynasty eunuch Li Lianying: The Warlords: 2007: 1850–64
The Opium War: Xie Jin: War/Historical: 1997 Golden Rooster for Best Picture Out of Phoenix Bridge: Li Hong: Documentary: Red River Valley: Feng Xiaoning: Ning Jing: Historical: Spicy Love Soup: Zhang Yang: Gao Yuanyuan: Romantic drama: Zhang Yang's directorial debut Surveillance: Huang Jianxin: Entered into the 47th Berlin International Film ...
Most recently he was known for the direction of The Opium War (1997). Xie was a popular director amongst the older generations of Chinese, with six of his films being voted Best Picture in the Hundred Flowers Awards.
China is the home of the largest movie and drama production complex and film studios in the world, the Oriental Movie Metropolis [5] [6] and Hengdian World Studios. In 2012 the country became the second-largest market in the world by box office receipts. In 2016, the gross box office in China was CN¥45.71 billion (US$6.58 billion). China has ...
In 1997, Bao was cast as Lin Zexu in Xie Jin's historical epic film The Opium War, which won the 1997 Golden Rooster and the 1998 Hundred Flowers awards for Best Picture. To prepare for the role, Bao travelled to Lin Zexu's hometown of Fuzhou to experience life there. Apart from that, every morning when he woke up, he would imagine himself as ...
He was also depicted in film, such as in the 1997 movie The Opium War. [24] His grandson Commodore Lin Taizeng was an officer in the Beiyang Fleet and commanded one of China's two modern battleships purchased from Germany in the 1880s, Zhenyuan, during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895). He committed suicide with an opium overdose after ...