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The Blue Kite (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Lán fengzheng) is a film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 1993. Though banned by the Chinese government upon its completion (along with a ten year ban on filmmaking imposed on Tian), the film soon found a receptive international audience. Along with Zhang Yimou's To Live and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, The Blue Kite serves as one of the quintessential examples of China's Fifth Generation filmmaking, and in particular reveals the impact the various political movements, including Anti-Rightist Movement and Cultural Revolution, had upon directors who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s.