askchapo

A lot of people have recommended Hong Kong flicks but I would really recommend checking out some stuff from the mainland it's very different.

One of the great Chinese directors is Jia Zhangke. All his stuff is interesting but my faves are A Touch of Sin (2013) but any deeper cut that is really interesting is I Wish I Knew (2014), and oral history of Shanghai across the 20th century. Extremely interesting he gets all these interesting seniors from completely different backgrounds and just lets them each tell a story about their experience about their gangster father who fled to HK after the revolution, or a film censor who was tasked with monitoring the first Euro documentary in China, a woman who describes her freedom after the revolution to be romantic forlove as opposed to a financial obligation...civil war, Cultural Revolution, so much craziness happened in that century it's a really interesting watch and he's such a great director he cuts it all together with really interesting footage of everyday life in modern Shanghai.