Cinema of China

Cinema of China history goes way back.. 

Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first chinese film "The battle of Dingjunshan" was made in 1905. The film industry was being centered on Shanghai in the first decade back int the days.
The film industry was engulfed by the Japanese in 1941, till the end of the war in 1945 it was under their control.

After the end of war, the second golden age started. Production in Shanghai resuming, with many films one of it which is Spring in a small town (1984), named as the best Chinese language film at the 24th Hong Kong film awards.
After the communist revolution in 1949, previous and some of the foreign films were banned in 1951. And during the cultural revolution, the film industry were severely restricted, coming almost to a standstill from 1967-1972. However, following in the end of the Cultural Revolution ended the industry started to flourished.

Beginning in the mid-late 1980s, the rise of the "fifth generation" of Chinese filmmakers brought increased popularity of Chinese cinema aboard. 
The post 1990s period saw the rise of the sixth generation and post sixth generation, both making films outside the main Chinese film system and played mostly on the international film festival circuit. 

Following the international commercial success of films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Hero (2002), the number of co-productions in Chinese-language cinema has increased and there has been movements of Chinese-language based cinema into a domain of large scale international influence. 

China now is the home of the largest film studio in the world, Hengdian World Studios, and in 2010 it had the third largest film industry by number of feature films produced annually. The country is predicted to have the largest market in the world by 2017 or 2018 and largest number of screens by 2017. China has also became a major hub of business for Hollywood studios.

Painted skin is a supernatural-fantasy film that is a produced by China, Hong Kong and Singapore. 

The film is set in China 2000 years ago, when General Wang captures XiaoWei, a women with unsurpassed beauty. Soon after, Wang brings he to his castle and she starts to attract people with her beauty, which makes Wang's wife suspicious. At the times many dead bodies were discovered around the castle with a missing heart. The plot is very interesting, the actor and actress did an awesome job portraying the characters. I like how the visual effects were used in this movie, it really caught my eye, Hence, for me painted skin is my pick from Cinema of China.