ICM Forum's Favorite Chinese Movies, 2nd edition; Nominations

[Lonewolf2003]

ICM Forum's Favorite Chinese Movies
2nd Edition
Nominations

It's time to chose our favorite Chinese movies again.

Eligible countries/territories are
- China
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Macao


DEADLINE = 7 February 2023

• IMDb- or iCM-lists are accepted. (If you can't make one of those, ask another user to help you out.)
• Lists can be any length.
• Shorts, mini-series and TV-episodes from anthology series where the episodes are unrelated, are allowed. Tv-series aren't allowed.*
  *A mini-series is 16 episodes or less, not multiple seasons, and not planned to be longer but canceled, and is intended as a single unified work and not episodic.
• Each nominee can only be named once (of course)
• Lists can be ranked or unranked or partially-ranked. In a partially-ranked list, the top X films are ranked and everything after that point is unranked. When not specified I will consider a list as ranked.

Some help:
Movies you rated on IMDb from China, sorted by your rating
Movies you rated on IMDb from Hong Kong, sorted by your rating
Movies you rated on IMDb from Taiwan, sorted by your rating
Movies you rated on IMDb from Macao, sorted by your rating
Like always, use this at your own discretion; not all movies mentioned you might consider Chinese and some you would could be missing. (And I'm not Ferge, I'm not going to do background research on the production history of questionable movies , instead I will let the public decide if a movie is Chinese.)

Last edition from 2017:

Top List	Full Or Extended List	Result Thread	Nomination Thread
Top 150 Top 150	Complete List Complete List	Results Thread	Nominations Thread

Voters (28)

Onderhond
Lakigigar
Perception de Ambiguity
jeff_v
PopperTheKungFu-Dragon
St. Gloede
beavis
Y U M E
Caracortada
Teproc
hurluberlu (unranked66)
3eyes
TraverseTown
beasterne
peeptoad
filmbantha
mjf314
zzzorf
monclivie
Smoover
joachimt (unranked7)
whizwilly
pitchorneirda
klaus78 (unranked)
Lonewolf2003 (unranked90)
Melvelet
zuma
Ivan0716

Please check if your list is stated, ordered and linked correctly. And is set to public. For iCM lists you can also set it to "Friends" and befriend me. Don't edit your post, but make a new post or at least notify me of the edit in a new post.

[Onderhond]

There we go, 72 films, all ranked.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/best ... onderhond/

[Lakigigar]

There we go, 72 films, all ranked.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/listsettin ... +of+china/

I think you need to make the list public again.

[Lakigigar]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562130117/

Only 4 films, but i really love them, so it's more of additional moral support. Definitely an area that i want to watch more from, so i'll use the end results to guide me in that a bit.

[Onderhond]

I think you need to make the list public again.

Fixed! I took the wrong link it seems.

[Perception de Ambiguity]

I'm pumped for this one.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562160566/

[jeff_v]

My list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls069407868/

[PopperTheKungFu-Dragon]

Here ya go, a ranked list.

I've excluded movies that I consider to be Singaporean even though they came up in the search results as Chinese since you haven't mentioned Singapore in your eligible countries/territories

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562120576/

[St. Gloede]

My list: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls069654109/

[beavis]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/chin ... ll/beavis/
fully ranked

as LB list
https://letterboxd.com/beavis/list/chin ... my-top-50/

with my ratings (out of 5 stars)

Spoiler

5 - Faa Yeung Nin Wa (2000) - In the Mood for Love
5 - Bu San (2003) - Good Bye, Dragon Inn
5 - Wo Hu Cang Long (2000) - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5 - Yi Dai Zong Shi (2013) - The Grandmaster
4,5 - Guang Ban (2009) - Sun Spot
4,5 - Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun (2002) - Springtime in a Small Town
4,5 - Ming Jian (1980) - The Sword
4,5 - Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun (2005) - The Wayward Cloud
4,5 - Tian Can Bian (1983) - Bastard Swordsman
4,5 - Sanxia Haoren (2006) - Still Life
4,5 - Zhuang Si Le Yi Zhi Yang (2018) - Jinpa
4,5 - Siu Ngo Gong Woo (1990) - Swordsman
4,5 - Ai Qing Wan Sui (1994) - Vive l'Amour
4,5 - Ta Fang Jian Li De Yun (2020) - The Cloud in Her Room
4,5 - Di Qiu Zui Hou De Ye Wan (2018) - Long Day's Journey into Night
4,5 - Ci Ke Nie Yin Niang (2015) - The Assassin
4,5 - Shui Jing Ren (1983) - Portrait in Crystal
4 - Hai Tan De Yi Tian (1983) - That Day, on the Beach
4 - Binglang (2006) - Betelnut
4 - He Liu (1997) - The River
4 - Shi Mian Mai Fu (2004) - House of Flying Daggers
4 - Feng gui Lai de Ren (1983) - The Boys from Fengkuei
4 - Ruan Ling Yu (1991) - Center Stage
4 - Chun Jiang Shui Nuan (2019) - Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
4 - Gau Ngao Gau (2006) - Dog Bite Dog
4 - Do Lok Tin Si (1995) - Fallen Angels
4 - Dong (1998) - The Hole
4 - Zhantai (2000) - Platform
4 - Sun Lung Moon Hak Chan (1992) - New Dragon Gate Inn
4 - Yim Ji Kau (1987) - Rouge
4 - Jiao You (2013) - Stray Dogs
4 - Na Pian Hu Shui (2014) - Lake August
4 - Wu Lin Sheng Huo Jin (1983) - Holy Flame of the Martial World
4 - Sik Ching Nam Lui (1996) - Viva Erotica
4 - Qianxi Mànbo (2001) - Millennium Mambo
4 - Fong Juk (2006) - Exiled
4 - Ah Fei Zing Zyun (1990) - Days of Being Wild
4 - Dip Huet Seung Hung (1989) - The Killer
4 - Nan Guo Zai Jian, Nan Guo (1996) - Goodbye South, Goodbye
4 - Yihe Yuan (2006) - Summer Palace
4 - Huangjin Zhou (2008) - Routine Holiday
4 - Tian Zhu Ding (2013) - A Touch of Sin
4 - Nam Yan Sei Sap (2002) - July Rhapsody
4 - Bu Jian (2003) - The Missing
4 - 2046 (2004) -
4 - Du Hou Mi Shi (1976) - The Sexy Killer
4 - Ci Sha Xiao Shuo Jia (2021) - A Writer's Odyssey
4 - Qing Shao Nian Nuo Zha (1992) - Rebels of the Neon God
4 - Guizi Lai Le (2000) - Devil's on the Doorstep
4 - Lu Bian Ye Can (2015) - Kaili Blues

7x Tsai Ming-Liang
4x Wong Kar Wai
4x Hsiao Hsien Hou
3x Heng Yang
3x Jia Zhangke

[Onderhond]

Oh crap ... this is a greater China list? Never mind my original list then, I'll update it later today.

[Y U M E]

My ranked list (93 titles out of +/- 425 features seen)
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/a+pe ... ki+rokuro/

Top 10 (on first production country):
6x Taiwan
2x Hong Kong
2x China

Top 93 (on first production country):
27x Taiwan
25x Hong Kong
41x China

[Caracortada]

My Top 30:
ICM Poll: China in Your Hand

[Onderhond]

Updated, went from 72 to 191 films with HK & Taiwan included.

Hong Kong: 86/1286
China: 72/576
Taiwan: 33/181

[Teproc]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... es/teproc/

[hurluberlu]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562145918/

1-66 ranked
rest unranked (67-206)

[3eyes]

Ranked

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562141813/

[TraverseTown]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/trav ... versetown/ ranked

[beasterne]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/favo ... beasterne/ ranked

Not a region I've seen a lot of movies from. I was still able to put together a top 20 though.

[peeptoad]

ranked

[Y U M E]

Is there a participant who has selected a Macanese* movie yet? Some of Johnnie To's movies are situated in Macau and Joao Pedro Rodrigues "A Última Vez Que Vi Macau", but none of these are not Macanese movies by first production country I guess.

Thanks for lists so far, I picked some martial arts/Shaw fantasy titles and added them to my wish/watch-list. Though I have few on my own list, but never the less I like them a lot. The ones I liked most are rated 7.6 / ★★★½ in my database and that's just below the boundary to select them for these country-toplists...


*Macanese, I had to look it up, don't know the right adjective in Dutch either btw. I think 'Macaus'

[filmbantha]

Here is my ranked list:

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562332343/

[mjf314]

Here's my list from the previous poll: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070219933/

I haven't watched many Chinese films since then, so I can't think of anything to add.

[zzzorf]

Here's my ranked list https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/my+s ... es/zzzorf/

[zzzorf]

Is there a participant who has selected a Macanese* movie yet? Some of Johnnie To's movies are situated in Macau and Joao Pedro Rodrigues "A Última Vez Que Vi Macau", but none of these are not Macanese movies by first production country I guess.

I just put up my list and it has one movie from Macau in it, Roulette City (2012).

[Fergenaprido]

DEADLINE = January 4 February 2023

Er.... what's the deadline then? Assuming Feb 4th, not Jan 4th. Also, the Date in the header at the top of the site says Feb 2nd.

I've excluded movies that I consider to be Singaporean even though they came up in the search results as Chinese since you haven't mentioned Singapore in your eligible countries/territories

Singapore was included in our Southeast Asia poll a few years ago.

Is there a participant who has selected a Macanese* movie yet? Some of Johnnie To's movies are situated in Macau and Joao Pedro Rodrigues "A Última Vez Que Vi Macau", but none of these are not Macanese movies by first production country I guess.

I just put up my list and it has one movie from Macau in it, Roulette City (2012).

Roulette City's the one I was thinking of too.

There are also these films:
A Trança Feiticeira [Bewitching Braid] (1996) by Cai Yuanyuan
Sea of Mirrors (2019) by Thomas Lim
Tricycle Thief (2014 short) by Maxim Bessmertny
Dirty Laundry (2020 short) by Maxim Bessmertny - I saw this one on YT the other year when they had that COVID online festival. It won't make my list, though.

[beasterne]

Here's a Macau film I am morbidly interested in: The Audition (2015).

Directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert de Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Brad Pitt. Runtime - 16 minutes. Budget - $70 MILLION.

Description: Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio must compete for the lead role in Martin Scorsese's next film. According to Wikipedia, The Audition was financed by the Melco Crown Entertainment Limited to commission the opening of its Studio City Macau Resort and Casino. As advertisements for casinos are banned in mainland China, speculation arose that Melco used the short to exploit a loophole to promote the casino. With the short film's budget around $70 million, each actor was reportedly paid $13 million for less than two days' work.

https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+audition-2015/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016250/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Audition_(2015_film)

[Onderhond]

Isabella: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499141/

Macau isn't listed as a production country, but the film is set there for the most part. It's a gem too.

[Lonewolf2003]

DEADLINE = January 4 February 2023

Er.... what's the deadline then? Assuming Feb 4th, not Jan 4th. Also, the Date in the header at the top of the site says Feb 2nd.

Definitely January 4th. This poll is only for those smart enough to invent a way to time travel

Seriously, deadline is 7th of February 2023 AD. I forgot I’m on holiday the first weekend of February

I don’t know who updates and makes the mistakes in the header.

[monclivie]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/chin ... monclivie/
Ranked / 排名

[joachimt]

I don’t know who updates and makes the mistakes in the header.

That would be me. Mistake corrected.

[Smoover]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls069341154/
ranked

[whizwilly]

Are Ang Lee's first three films eligible?

[joachimt]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562699748/

1 to 7 ranked, rest unranked.

[Fergenaprido]

Are Ang Lee's first three films eligible?

His Father Knows Best trilogy? I think they're all Taiwanese-first productions, and 2 of the 3 made the Top 150 last time, so I think they are still eligible.

[whizwilly]

Heres my ranked list

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/coun ... whizwilly/

[Lonewolf2003]

Are Ang Lee's first three films eligible?

All Ang Lee films you feel are Chinese productions eligible. If you want to make it simple; the ones with originally Chinese titles are, the ones with originally American titles aren't from his filmography.

[Lonewolf2003]

Updated the OP

22 voters so far

Please check if your list is stated, ordered and linked correctly. And is set to public. For iCM lists you can also set it to "Friends" and befriend me

[pitchorneirda]

Ranked

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitc ... horneirda/

[klaus78]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls562408227/ (unranked)