[Here Comes the Devil] 2001
Director: Jiang Wen
This is by far China's best war-themed film. In the Japanese-occupied areas during the War of Resistance Against Japan, a small Japanese and traitor interpreter is captured by local villagers and placed in a peasant's home, and the situation of both sides is extremely embarrassing, and the story goes down the unpredictable road.
The film shows the humility of the living conditions of the peasants at the bottom, entering the climax in a manic atmosphere of killing, after which the nationalist army suddenly becomes the victor to counterattack, and the most absurd thing is that only the head of the avenger Ma Dashan falls to the ground. The self-critical spirit of this film is undoubtedly very sharp and outstanding.
[Creep Zhang Ga] 1963
Director: Cui Wei
A little boy movie that never tires of watching, it can also be said to be the only movie that has been truly loved by generations of children. Because it is a film full of artistic charm.
If you read it in depth, the concept of war in the film may be "big and rough", and Zhang Ga's view of war and ghosts has a mentality of playing games, and it is not very rigorous. But it's so fluid and funny, so entertaining, with a mythical and timeless depiction of a boy's heroic growth.
[Battle of Liaoshen in Armageddon] 1991
Director: Yang Guangyuan, etc
The "Great Armageddon" trilogy, which imitated the Soviet Union's "Great Patriotic War Trilogy", was also made with national strength, and the first "Liaoshen Campaign" depicted Lin Biao and had a certain breakthrough attempt at the cruelty of war.
[Blood Battle Taierzhuang] 1986
Director: Yang Guangyuan
This film recreates that magnificent battle, and has a shocking power because of respect for the authenticity of history, just as the exclamation quoted in the film from the Japanese army's diary is: "Fang Zhi corpse mountain and blood sea is not unique to Japanese soldiers."
[Exotic] (and sequel to The End of The Exotic Hero) 1990
Director: Zhu Yanping
This film shows a lone Army of the Kuomintang stranded in Burma for historical reasons, and has the courage of a large-scale epic, shaping a number of major characters, almost every one of which is full of flesh and blood.
[Assembly Number]
Director: Feng Xiaogang
A film that is excellent in terms of war performance and screenwriting skills is also a little controversial.
[Tunnel Warfare]
Directed by Ren Xudong
The war film classics created by the older generation of film artists, although limited, are not rigid, but have the twists and humors that are rarely found in today's commercial films. Among them, the "Tang Commander" portrayed by Liu Jiang left a very deep impression.
[Evening Bell]
Directed by Wu Ziniu
A war film that deviates from the traditional main theme, full of humanitarian overtones, once won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
[Southern Expedition to the North] 1952
Directed by Tang Xiaodan
Another classic military teaching film, also did not fall into the rigid cliché, at the same time has the wonderful drama, the shaping of multiple characters are very unforgettable, the film successfully expressed the theory of sports warfare. For military fans, the film is also very informative because it directly uses real weapons, including tanks.
[A Noon Storm] 1962
Director: Linnong
Although this film from sixty years ago inevitably has some fallacies and one-sided views on history, but aside from these, "Jia Wu Feng" is indeed a magnificent, thick texture, full of tragic patriotic films, and its two naval battles are still quite wonderful.