Chinese Film Industry

I haven't seen a lot of Chinese movies. I've seen Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, and the House of Flying Daggers. I wanted to know more about Chinese cinema outside of the Kung Fu genre though. The Chinese film industry didn't really take off until 1913 following the release of the movie, "The Difficult Couple." After silent movies had been made obsolete, China entered a new era of film with the left-wing movement. More artistic approaches to film were taken from the years 1933-1935. Subsequent to China's liberation, the 1940's and 50's were a good time for the Chinese film industry. Classics of the era were created by filmmaker Shen Fu. A number of movies had story lines revolving around the hardships of Japanese belligerency and oppression. The seventeen years in between that time and the cultural revolution produced 603 feature films. Throughout the late sixties and early seventies, no film was shot due to the cultural revolution. Films were heavily restricted. When the cultural revolution ended, creativity flourished one again and this era spawned numerous films on the pros and cons of the cultural revolution. In the late eighties though, the film, radio, and TV industry was put under "stricter supervision." In the mid nineties, the Chinese government allowed foreign films to be shown. Since the new millennium filmmakers began creating more realistic films as opposed to grandiose and stylistic films like those before it.