East Asia is a continent in East Asia. Cantonwood refers to Hong Kong’s Cantonese-language film industry. The Hengdian World Studios, China’s largest film studio, is known as Chinawood. It is a component of China’s cinema.
China’s film industry is catching up to Hollywood’s. China has swelled to the world’s second-largest film market, generating over nine billion dollars in global box office income in 2018.
China is the world’s fastest-growing movie market, with RMB44 billion in box office receipts in 2015. China’s box office is predicted to reach RMB200 billion by 2020, surpassing North America as that of the world’s largest market in terms of box office revenue and audience.
In 2020, China produced 531 feature films, down from 850 the previous year. Despite the fierce competition, certain feature films have made a large amount of money there at the box office.
The first Chinese movie, Dingjun Mountain, was released in 1905 after cinema was brought to China in 1896. Shanghai was indeed the epicentre of the movie industry in the early decades. In 1931, the first sound picture, Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, was released utilising sound-on-disc technology. The emergence of the communist cinematic movement occurred in the 1930s, which is regarded as the first “Golden Period” of Chinese cinema.
The movie industry represented the conflict between Nationalists as well as Communists. Following the Japanese invasion of China and occupation of Shanghai, the movie business in the city was badly harmed, with filmmakers fleeing to Hong Kong, Chongqing, as well as other locations. In Shanghai, a “Solitary Island” phase began, with the remaining filmmakers working inside the foreign concessions.
At the conclusion of this time, Princess Iron Fan (1941), the first Chinese animated feature picture, was released. It impacted Japanese animation during WWII, as well as Osamu Tezuka subsequently. The city’s film industry was under Japanese authority from 1941 until the conclusion of the war in 1945 when it was entirely consumed by the occupation.
After the war, Shanghai saw a second golden era, with production restarting. At the 24th Hong Kong Picture Awards, Spring in a Small Town (1948) was selected best Chinese-language movie. Following the communist revolution in 1949, domestic films that had previously been released, as well as a few international films, were prohibited in 1951, beginning a period of Chinese cinema censorship.
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