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Release Date: 1984

Cast: Tan Tuo, Wang Xueqi, Xue Bai, Qiang Li

Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Political drama, Chinese Movies

Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔdì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film. It was the directorial debut for Chen Kaige. The film's notable cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. At the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005, a list of 100 Best Chinese Motion Pictures was tallied, and Yellow Earth came in fourth. Yellow Earth is set in early Spring 1939. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and the KMT (Kuomintang) have stopped fighting one another and are working together to overwhelm the invading Japanese forces. The provinces... MORE

Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔdì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film. It was the directorial debut for Chen Kaige. The film's notable cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. At the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005, a list of 100 Best Chinese Motion Pictures was tallied, and Yellow Earth came in fourth. Yellow Earth is set in early Spring 1939. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and the KMT (Kuomintang) have stopped fighting one another and are working together to overwhelm the invading Japanese forces. The provinces are divided into KMT-controlled areas and CCP-controlled areas. Shaanxi is divided into three sections: the northernmost and southernmost are KMT-controlled, the middle is CCP. As a result of the collaboration between the two parties, navigation between the provinces is allowed. Gu Qing, a soldier from the propaganda department of the CCP Eight Route Army in CCP-controlled Shaanxi, travels alone from Yen'an to the northern KMT-controlled area of Shaanxi, Shaanbei, with the task of collecting the peasants' folk songs in order to re-write them with communist lyrics in order to boost the morale of the Eight Route LESS