A list of mainland Chinese films released in 1996:
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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Cello in a Cab | Guan Hu | Geng Le, Kong Lin | Drama | Also known as The Street Rhapsody |
East Palace, West Palace | Zhang Yuan | Hu Jun, Si Han | Drama | One of the first Chinese films to address LGBT issues, screened at Cannes |
The Emperor's Shadow | Zhou Xiaowen | Ge You, Jiang Wen | Historical/Drama | |
Farewell Our 1948 | Guan Hu | Drama | ||
The King of Masks | Wu Tianming | Zhu Xu | Drama | |
Living Dream | Hu Xueyang | Drama | ||
Signal Left, Turn Right | Huang Jianxin, Yang Yazhou | Ding Jiali | Comedy | |
The Singer | Huo Jianqi | |||
Sons | Zhang Yuan | Docudrama | Tiger Award winner at the 1996 International Film Festival Rotterdam | |
A Story of Xiangxiang | Teng Wenji | Drama | ||
The Strangers in Beijing | He Qun | Drama | ||
Sun Valley | He Ping | Zhang Fengyi | Drama/Western | Entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival |
Temptress Moon | Chen Kaige | Gong Li, Leslie Cheung | Historical/Drama/Romance | Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival |
Touching Starlight | Zhang Ziyi | |||
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The following lists events from 1996 in China.