Chinese language film production year by year
August 12th, 2007 by Lu Pin
A new page has been added to list the Chinese language film production year by year. This includes all spoken Chinese languages, from Mandarin/Putonghua to several dialects, as well as early silent films. This is a list of feature length fictional films. Not included are TV programmes, short films, documentaries, newsreels, and animated films.
Since this is a Chinese language film list, a small list of non-Chinese language films are not included.
Films in production are not included as well. There are more than 100 of thems at the moment.
The total number is 16038 on 12 Aug 2007.
Here is the numbers of film production in decades. Go to the “year by year” page to see the full list:
2000-present: 1247
1990’s: 2664
1980’s: 3353
1970’s: 1852
1960’s: 3287
1950’s: 2413
1940’s: 669
1930’s: 646
1920’s: 523
1910’s: 9
1900’s: 9
The up and down of the numbers per decade reflects the high and low period of Chinese film production, for example, the early boom in 1920-1930’s, Second World War, another booming period in 1950-1960’s, almost non-production 1970’s in China, production peak from 1980’s to early 1990’s, etc.
Thanks for this feature!
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This is a very helpful list. It must have taken a lot of effort and time to compile. Thanks for providing this great resource!
Is it possible to view year by year Chinse language film production for Mainland films only?
Thanks for your suggestion. We are working on that.