Films banned by the Chinese film board - stupidest reason?
All of these films have been banned in China, for various reasons - which reason do you deem to be the least substantial and as a result 'the stupidest' banning? Discuss here
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- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen BoydAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Banned for "propaganda of superstitious beliefs, namely Christianity".
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.Banned because the government believe time-travel to be a dangerous element in fiction and Marty McFly's actions to be highly inappropriate.
- DirectorZhuangzhuang TianStarsTian YiWenyao ZhangXiaoman ChenThe lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.A Chinese film that was not only banned, but was considered so offensive that the director Tian Zhuangzhuang received a ten year ban from film making.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiTwo boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.Was banned for a time due to homosexual themes and a negative portrayal of communism.
- DirectorJan de BontStarsAngelina JolieGerard ButlerChris BarrieAdventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.Banned for it's unflattering depictions of Chinese society.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack NicholsonAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.Banned for a line that suggests that the Chinese government intends to use a nuclear weapon on Taiwan.
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsTatsuya FujiwaraKen'ichi MatsuyamaAsaka SetoA battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.Banned because people were making their own death notes and were writing peoples names down to imitate the film, which was deemed harmful and was thought to incite anarchy and insubordination.
- DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsJohnny DeppOrlando BloomKeira KnightleyCaptain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.It was banned because Chow Yun-fat a Singaporean pirate, played a negative and stereotypical portrayal of Chinese people.
- DirectorTung-Shing YeeStarsJackie ChanNaoto TakenakaDaniel WuA simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.It was deemed too violent to go into wide release and was banned when the director refused to cut out the violence with-in the film.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsSam WorthingtonZoe SaldanaSigourney WeaverA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.The 2D versions were banned because it was thought that its themes would lead audiences to think about forced removal and would possibly incite violence.