Banned in China?


doesn't even see it on chinese movie website douban.com.

strange

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I don't think so, I just downlaoded the movie and watched it with Chinese subtitles. The movie collection on Douban may be incomplete as it is mostly targerted towards doemstic moveis rather than foreign ones.

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Yes, it's banned in China. But people may access the movie from pirated sources, such as from certain less government controlled video sites or pirated VCD/DVD.

Related reports:
NTDTV (English subtitled): The Lady Banned in China http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2011/10/24/a607414.html

From http://michelleyeoh.info/Movie/thelady.html

(04/18/12)
Last October, Chinese communist authorities ordered the trailers of The Lady deleted from the Chinese video sites and the name of the film removed from the movie databases. A "secret order" banned all news, promos and footage on the "film about Southeast Asian politician Aung San Suu Kyi, 'The Lady'." With the film being released in more Chinese speaking territories, Mainland Chinese reporters sometimes snuck in one or two brief reports or event photos. In February, another secret order was issued to media people. Reporters were told they are forbidden to write anything about "the movie on that Burmese woman."

For anyone who may not know, Aung San Suu Kyi's name, as well as some other "sensitive words" including "June 4th" (the date of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989) and "Falun Gong", are still banned at some popular community forums in Mainland China. And China's own Nobel Peace Prize laureate is still being locked up in jail.

(03/07/12) Note: Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband Michael Aris was a leading Western scholar on Tibetan and Himalayan culture. In his last years he helped to establish a specialist Tibetan and Himalayan Studies centre at Oxford. Coincidentally, David Thewlis, who played Michael Aris, starred in 1997's US/UK production "Seven Years in Tibet". And as a result, the Chinese communist government banned David Thewlis, along with his co-star Brad Pitt and director Jean-Jacques Annaud, from ever entering China.

(10/16/11) Immediately after the Asian premiere at BIFF, the news of The Lady was largely reported in many Asian territories in multiple languages - Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, etc.. Especially in Mainland China, dozens of media run reports on the press conference and premiere of The Lady, along with photos of Michelle and Luc Besson. There is no Chinese title for the film yet, so the film was referred as "Aung San Suu Kyi" in Chinese movie databases and by the media. People were talking about the film on forums and Weibo (a Chinese version of Twitter) with excitement.

That certainly made the communist authority nervous. According to leaked information, a secret order was issued. Just overnight, the film was deleted from "Mtime" and "Dou Ban", the two largest movie databases and discussion sites (like a Chinese version of IMDb). And, previously published film trailers "mysteriously" disappeared from major Chinese video sites.

(10/11/11)
For anyone who may not know, Aung San Suu Kyi's name, along with many "sensitive words", which include "democracy", "freedom", "Nobel Peace Prize", etc., are actually banned at some popular community forums in Mainland China. While Burma/Myanmar recently lifted ban on the websites such as Facebook and YouTube, these sites (and many others) remain blocked in China. China's own Nobel Peace Prize laureate is still being locked up in jail

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I'm a little bit shocked about all these you wrote. I don't understand, why China should banned this film? I thought China was a free country, especially nowadays. Who does banned all this and do they censorship international sites like IMDb, Facebook and Youtube? Can the users have free access in these sites?

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LMAO!! China is a free country?Sure go to the one party HQ and tell them how much you disagree with them.





- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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I need a proper answer to a serious question and not a silly "funny guy's" answer.

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Okay,China is a one party dictatorship with secret prisons,censorship and no free speech. They lock up and put under house arrest political dissidents.They censor all forms of news,internet,entertainment. A simple google search will get you information on China.






- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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It seems China haven't changed a lot through the years, like North Korea, but only economically. I have to admit that if these are true, its very disappointing because I was admired China generally.

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China bans everything. But surprisingly they allowed V for Vendetta. I lived in China and you can't access a lot of websites from there. But the people will tell you how to bypass the firewall and you can get bootlegs everywhere. Counterfeit is a massive industry in China.They even have fake Apple stores.









Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

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Equilibrium is allowed in China even though there is a scene about the tank man.

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Can anything happen to people who access in these websites?

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what isnt banned in China?


Heck everything is pyrated! Or pirated

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