Wow, China is really milking it...

A Chinese film with Chinese pride & nationalism during a great war? What's next, Americans making films with American pride & nationalism during a great war? /s

Really? What did you expect?

pretty much, they are the big market in asia now, their censors do not accept anything else really and so the producers mold their films to fit the chinese government nationalist agenda, and their population is brainwashed with the same nationalism, so this is the souless garbage you get.

I agree...but to be honest...a movie about Chen Zhen really can't be about much else...we've all seen fist of fury right!

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It's ignorant to comment on this if you don't know China's history. Most western civilization don't know about China's history. All history classes teach about are the greeks, romans, US history. The era these movies focus on was a really bad time for China. China has a long and rich history but like all powerful nations, corruptions eventually took over and led to its downfall. During China's fall, european nations got powerful. 7 nations occupied a helpless china. Their treatment of china were no different from colonization. Then the Japanese took over. Japanese killed more people in china than the holocaust but no one in the west is aware of this part of history compared with people always talking about the holocaust and hitler. After finally fending off the japanese, civil war broke out in china. It was almost inevitable that communism overtakes china. The Disparity between the rich (who sold their own nation to the 7 nations and japan to gain/maintain their wealth) were too great.

I am no fan of China's government and I am an american. But I can understand why these movies were made. Some of these characters are people that stood up for their nation when their nation were being oppressed. (But others like IP man are highly fictional and made to sell about a martial arts legend. these characters lived during this era so naturally they fought against the japanese)

We also make a lot of movies about events in our history like pearl harbor,countless movies about vietnam, world war.

father_of_chicks,
I like the fact that you think you are superior to everybody else here on this board and goes on a nerd rage to bash everybody, when you yourself uses wikipedia as a reliable source.

The reason I don't like Japan is not because the so-called "brain washing" you are refering to, but because of the horrifying experiences my grandparents had during the Japanese occupation (Japanese rapings and killings).
Neither you, nor any other random arrogant jerk, can convince me that my grand parents were lying.

Also, unlike Germany, the Japanese government has never admitted their crimes and apologized to China.
You can call me a racist, but how would you feel if your country was occupied and outside each park entrance stood the sign: < Dogs (chinese included) not allowed.>

When we are at it, let us use your own source to prove you wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

Go under TOTAL DEATHS, look under China, and see the numbers 10,000,000 to 20,000,000, so you want to tell me that these 19 million Chinese that died under WWII was all accidents? The Nanjing Massacre number was the death toll of one Chinese city, please get your facts straight before going on an arrogant nerd rage.

I am Chinese and I embrace Hollywood and even Bollywood rather than local productions. Local movies here are nothing more than gangsters/police, teenage romance, kung-fu fighting... *yawn*

Just had to reply to this thread:

As a person who does love asian films, I must admit that I have been seeing some films recently by HK/China that says bad things about Japan or feels like it's pushing China PRIDE. It reminds me of the 70s and 80s chinese films of the time. I can only assume that this is because China is slowly taking over HK. It's ok to have pride in your country, but why do they have to keep talking trash about the Japanese. I mean, get over it, WW2 was long ago.