Editing War film (section)

=== Chinese ===

The first Chinese war films were newsreels like ''[[Battle of Wuhan (1911 film)|Battle of Wuhan]]''<!-- an article on this film is clearly needed so redlink is useful, ditto for next --> (1911) and ''[[Battle of Shanghai (1913 film)|Battle of Shanghai]]'' (1913). Still in films such as [[Xu Xinfu]]'s ''[[Battle Exploits]]'' (1925), war featured mainly as background. Only with the Second Sino–Japanese War from 1937 onwards did war film become a serious genre in China, with nationalistic films such as [[Shi Dongshan]]'s ''[[Protect Our Land]]'' (1938). The Chinese Civil War, too, attracted films such as [[Cheng Yin]]'s ''[[From Victory to Victory]]'' (1952). A more humanistic film set in the same period is [[Xie Jin]]'s The Cradle (1979), while more recent large-scale commercial films include [[Lu Chuan]]'s ''[[City of Life and Death]]'' (2009).<ref name="YeZhu2012">{{Cite book |last1=Ye |first1=Tan |last2=Zhu |first2=Yun |title=Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=javqwyBe0WoC&pg=PA168 |year=2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-6779-6 |pages=168–169}}</ref> Chinese directors have repeatedly attempted to cover the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the [[Nanjing Massacre]] (1937–1938), with films such as the political melodrama ''[[Massacre in Nanjing]]'', [[Mou Tun Fei]]'s [[docudrama]] ''[[Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre]]'', and the "contrived Sino–Japanese romance" ''[[Don't Cry, Nanking]]''.<ref name="Li">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Peter |title=Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2J0ZqRZw-QQC&pg=PA222 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |isbn=978-1-4128-2683-9 |pages=204–223}}</ref> [[Zhang Yimou]]'s epic Chinese film ''[[Flowers of War]]'' (2011), based on [[Geling Yan]]'s novel, portrays the violent events through the eyes of a 13-year-old girl.<ref>{{Cite web <!--|last=Pollard |first=Lawrence-->|title=The story behind Chinese war epic The Flowers of War |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-16638897 |publisher=BBC |access-date=10 March 2015}}</ref>